id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mhmeqq3ly5be3gphtsybh63f4q Peter Webster Interconnected and Innovative Libraries: Factors Tying Libraries More Closely Together 2006 12 .pdf application/pdf 5247 457 49 It looks at new integrated online services and reviews the increasing importance of both formal and informal standards. New library online services are also becoming the focus of librar y sharing. new technologies like virtual reference, Open URL link resolving, federated searching, content management systems, and user direct document Development and use of common standards is one of the most important tasks that libraries perform collectively. One example of an informal standard in libraries is the software product introduction to the open source community and its method of shared development and cooperative maintenance of freely available software. Open WorldCat service is a major new development in centralized library OCLC also provides the means to link from a retrieved book reference to the Web searcher's local library (Mattison, 2005). As vendors rapidly develop new services, partnerships between software vendors and the library community ./cache/work_mhmeqq3ly5be3gphtsybh63f4q.pdf ./txt/work_mhmeqq3ly5be3gphtsybh63f4q.txt