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Download or read book State-of-the-art of Information Technologies in Libraries in the Nordic Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the result of a state-of-the-art study of information technologies in libraries in the Nordic countries and was commissioned by the European Commission. The purpose of the study was to provide an overview of the situation in the mid-1990s and recent developments regarding information technologies in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Research libraries and public libraries, as well as school libraries were included in the study in order to provide a comprehensive view of the situation in each country. The report consists of five country reports, a summary of the most important survey results, and an overview of Nordic cooperation initiatives concerning information technologies in libraries. The summary and overview were prepared by Nordinfo, the Nordic Council for Scientific Information.