Kim Beazley, Leader of the Opposition Lobbying for Libraries Libraries today are much more than repositories for books. New technologies like CD-ROM and the Internet mean libraries are now also gateways to the online world, and librarians the finders of knowledge in electronic space as well as in the stacks. Major initiatives like the Australian Libraries Gateway ensure the accessibility of these vast resources. Major databases such as those at the Mortlock Library of South Australiana, the State Library of Victoria and the State Library of Tasmania bring our heritage into our present and ensure it will be part of our future. If you have a Macintosh using System 8.5 or above, you've also got Sherlock - the father of all searches.
Sherlock searches the Internet utilising a range of search engines simultaneously.
Now you can add Australia's Cultural Network to the Sherlock search. Sherlock will use the Australia's Cultural Network search engine and its index of over 700,000 screens as part of its Sherlock search routine. Towards Federation 2001, Linking Australians and their Heritage, Report of Review Meeting.