00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.660215 CaOODSP 20241227145748 ta 150407|1998||||xxc||||| f|0| 0 eng d 0-662-63601-5 CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- P63-8/1998 Depository Services Program (Canada) Electronic access to Canadian federal government information: how prepared are the depository libraries? : Report to Depository Services Program, Canadian Government Publishing, Public Works and Government Services Canada, August 1997 / prepared by Elizabeth Dolan and Liwen Vaughan, Faculty of Communications and Open Learning, University of Western Ontario. Ottawa - Ontario : Public Works and Government Services Canada. 1998. English text, 76p. in various pagings. : graphs, references, tables ; 28 cm. "The recent rapid expansion of electronic publication and dissemination of federal government information in Canada has led the DSP to fund the first extensive examination of the state of readiness of depository libraries to adopt the new technologies. In the fall of 1996 researchers at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario undertook a project to investigate the technological capabilities and related services required by depository libraries to provide permanent public access to Canadian federal government information in electronic form. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all full and selective depositories in Canada and abroad in order to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Results are based on the analysis of data from 450 completed questionnaires."--Page i. The recent rapid expansion of electronic publication and dissemination of federal government information in Canada has led the DSP to fund the first extensive examination of the state of readiness of depository libraries to adopt the new technologies. In the fall of 1996 researchers at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario undertook a project to investigate the technological capabilities and related services required by depository libraries to provide permanent public access to Canadian federal government information in electronic form. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all full and selective depositories in Canada and abroad in order to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Results are based on the analysis of data from 450 completed questionnaires.--Page i Bilingual Softcover 98-28 1998-07-10 Government publications gcpds Dolan, Elizabeth Vaughn, Liwen Electronic access to Canadian federal government information : (CaOODSP)9.946449 Accès électronique à l'information du gouvernement fédéral canadien: dans quelle mesures les bibliothèques de dépôt sont-elle prêtes? : fre (CaOODSP)9.660216