This particular issue originally was distributed in two parts, as indicated below. All it takes to put a library online over here is a modem. It's being done. It's the ease of doing this here which is so amazing. There are rumors that much of this might end with the upcoming election of The Right, but there are other rumors that eventual privatization of, among others, France Telecom, might give it new energy and in fact expand it.
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By 1990 they had 235 workstations connected to the institute network, and a growing problem of information overload. Enter the library. They have developed their cataloging, available online, and they ported it to a UNIX platform in September 1991. Internet-access has been added, and the librarians make active reference and bibliography use of its capacities. File transfer projects are under way, notably with the science library at Carnegie-Mellon.