Online catalog records can, in principle, be linked with entries in online bibliographies and vice versa. In this way, items recorded in online bibliographies can have the locations of holdings linked to them. Thus bibliographies can serve as a dramatic enrichment of the catalog, providing very detailed access to collections. Further, as more resources are connected to networks, the number of bibliographic files searchable from any workstation anywhere becomes very large indeed. The Electronic Library There is, currently, a very rapid increase in the number and variety of documents in electronic form in all subject areas.
Remote access is feasible.
There seems little alternative to what we have always down with paper documents. Even if believes that documents on paper were the most suitable medium for reading, there are circumstances in which electronic documents are to be preferred. Electronic versions are preferable when the information is changeable because they are more easily updated. Electronic versions are preferable when there is a need to look quickly through a documents for some word or name, because a computer can do that very well with an electronic document. When the document is at a distance, and when documents need to be shared with remote co-workers, it is very useful to have an electronic version of the document.