Listservs and other electronic forums facilitate information exchanges among librarians from all over the world. Librarians now keep up with advances, challenges, and issues without having to attend expensive conferences or subscribing to multiple library journals. Question answering services. Another service, Stumpers-L, provides a networking resource for reference questions. International interlibrary loans.
Libraries now have customers from all over the world.
Internet accessible library catalogs assist research endeavors, provide interlibrary loan verifications, and offer a myriad of reference materials that enhance local library collections. Document delivery services. Major bibliographic utilities are experimenting with the use of real time bibliographic transactions over the network, while already supporting batch mode transactions. Government information can be distributed over the network to libraries allowing unparalleled opportunities for libraries to inform communities and constituents about government issues. Technical standards, such as Z39.50, coordinate the transfer of information between different systems and formats over the network.