Trends for a School Library

The following topics will be addressed: local area networks (LAN's), access to the Internet, and alternatives to providing access to databases (CD-ROM, traditional online databases, locally loaded or mounted databases, and full-text online databases, via the Internet.

Today's school library media center (LMC) is a world apart from that of a previous generation. The card catalog and manual circulation systems have been replaced by automated circulation and catalog systems. School libraries can buy such software from companies such as Companion Corporation in Provo, Utah. Companion sells an excellent system called Alexandria, a system which has received great reviews from librarians across the nation. Alexandria provides full MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) records, and such records may either be manually entered or downloaded from disk. Alexandria uses a system called "key word searching." In other words, a student can search one or more key word and bring up bibliographic records for all records containing that word or phrase.

Like most circulation and cataloging software systems, Alexandria has gone through several versions. In the pa

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