Ref lib questions WWW in OPACs

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Paul Neff, Internet Librarian wrote:

> An assumption I had made in earlier posts in this thread without stating so
> (which Carlos McIllvey, (spelled incorrectly?) rightly called me on) was that 
> the trend toward production of WWW/Z39.50 gateways and other WWW-based front 
> ends to catalogs would continue, making it possible to access MARC displays 
> through a Web browser and display them as hypertext.  This would make it
> possible to imbed URLs in the records in the 856 field, allowing users to 
> access Internet resources directly from the displayed record.  Without this
> possibility, my enthusiasm for cataloging Internet resources would be somewhat 
> diminished.  

This has been going on in the Music school at IU for years in the 
Variations Project which has been using repeating fields to embedd urls 
to associated video, sound, and music scores. Also with a z39.60 
client/server.

--Thom