The Library Master bibliographic and textual database manager is available in a multiple-user network version for Local and Wide Area Networks. Library Master is a true multiple-user database manager that allows shared databases to be edited by several users while other users search the database. Network versions of Library Master are available for Windows and DOS . University computing sites allow professors and students to maintain bibliographic references and research notes and create bibliographies for papers and theses.
Publishers prepare printed indexes to periodical literature and book catalogs.
Library users search topical bibliographic databases and create personalized bibliographies. Online and CD-ROM researchers more effectively use the results of their searches by storing the results in a personal database. Researchers share research notes and bibliographic references with project collaborators. Class participants work on collaborative bibliographic research projects, which they put in a shared database. Library science schools teach bibliographic database management and online searching techniques and provide students with hands-on learning experiences.