Since the nineteenth century, the modern library has been the preeminent institution of responsibility and trust in the information landscape. The Catalog has done much to make this possible by providing a uniform vehicle for access and management of a variety of information resources. Rapid grown of the Internet and the revolutionary transition from physical to digital artifacts jeopardize the...

This paper extends our work on the Warwick Framework a container architecture for multiple metadata packages that might be associated with a common resource. Since we believe that metadata is only “meta” in relation to other resources, we have generalized the framework to allow containers to hold or reference any sort of resource, not just those normally considered as metadata. Second, since su...

as one of the most important components of a nations basic facilities, the networking of the library plays a vital role in terms of promoting the sharing of access to information. although the traditional methods of literature indexing and accessing will continue to exist and develop, library networking will become the new model and the direction for the development of the library. through the ...