The first Library web site (when and where?)

[Thomas Dowling]

According to <URL:http://www-pals.gsu.edu:8001/webpals/history.html>, St.
Olaf College had a home grown Web to PALS gateway in the summer of 1994.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


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> DRA( http://www.dra.com/ ) looks like they had the first web
> based catalog that
> was commercially available and viable for the public to use.
> There may have been
> others out there but when we went with DRA WEB in early 1996 I
> wasn't aware of any
> other Web based opacs out there. I am curious where there any
> others or any home
> grown applications running earlier than February, 1996?
> --
> Skip Booth
> Information System Support Manager
> Anne Arundel County Public Library
> 5 Harry S Truman Parkway
> Annapolis, MD 21401
>