Collaborating over the web: Libraries and laboratries or the librarian and the webmaster

摘要

Fermilab (HREF1) has been using World Wide Web (HREF2) (WWW) servers and browsers for the past several years. The purpose has been to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams of large collaborations of high energy physics experimenters and to make possible the easy dissemination of information by support groups who work with those collaborations. That is, the purpose has been in fact that for which was created at CERN (HREF3) beginning in March 1989. In the remainder of this paper, we describe the architecture of the Laboratory and library servers, discuss the goals, the implications of those goals, the drivers of structure and content, and the effect of these factors on the architecture. Comparisons are made. The implications for libraries within organizations are described. The application to large libraries which begin to have multiple servers within their own organization (e.g., one in reference, one in cataloging, one in circulation) is made. The broader implications are discussed.