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Abstract:
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The Internet is beginning to be seen as a serious, useful source of information, over the
past few years. There is significant interest among users to find relevant Internet
information, of relevance to their day-to-day tasks. Libraries are finding it necessary to
take proactive action in identifying, evaluating and reporting relevant Internet resources
to their users. As the number of relevant Internet resources increase, libraries need to
develop adequate solutions to manage access to these resources. Libraries have followed
different, often ad-hoc, approaches in providing such solutions. We propose a databasedriven,
web-based Internet Resource Catalogue Manager as a general-purpose solution,
based on international standards. We describe the design factors one has to consider in
developing such a system and a prototype package we have developed, called IRCAT-M.
It is Web-based system, developed for Windows-based back-end server. It facilitates
setting up and managing a database of Internet resources and provides web-based
content management, search and browse interface. We discuss the design features in
detail, implementation considerations, operational features and further work to be
carried out. |