The Internet is the most successful computer network. Porting library public services to the Internet is a challenge and can be of great benefits for researchers. Universal access to library information to any institution that already has Internet access. Since information and applications are accessible by virtually any Web browser, universal access is afforded to virtually all clients - Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, or Network Computers. Lower training costs.
Web technology is easy to use.
Users, who know how to use a Web browser, are well equipped to access and use any of the library information or catalogues on the Internet or Intranet. HTML forms are offering a very easy way to construct user interface that an untrained user finds easy to use. A much harder task is to interface the HTTP server to the library database. Web searching is stateless. It s not possible to perform an interactive, iterative search.