Re: What's a Virtual Library?

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From: Gerald E. Boyd
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:00

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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:38:07 -0500 Angela Elkordy wrote:

>What is a Virtual Library?
[...]

The term virtual is being tossed around on the 'net for just about
everything nowadays. In the computerese sense of virtual, the definition
means "simulated, performing functions that aren't really there" as in
virtual memory.

So a virtual library should be a simulated library that really doesn't
have any "books" located there.

Physically, a collection of online resources. It would be best if the
"virtual" library didn't have links to other sources but only sources
located on the host computer system. This would follow the model of a
"real" library in the sense that the source material is located at that
location rather than somewhere else.



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Gerry Boyd -- gboyd@netcom.com

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