The World Wide Web is a distributed document delivery service using a client-server model to make it easy for users to search for and retrieve materials from remote sites. WWW servers offer visually rich pages that draw users into a complex but easily accessible web of information. Although a variety of clients exist for WWW, the real power of the Web requires a graphical interface such as Opera or Netscape along with a computer with multimedia capability.
Web clients let users create their own home pages.
Web pages can easily be made public. Almost all campus-wide information systems and libraries have migrated the Web in the last few years. The following sites offer examples of different ways to use WWW to offer library services.