GEN : WEB linking to catalog

[Pat Moore]

Posted to LM_NET, WEB4LIB and WINN-LIBNET

The May 1999 School Library Journal in an article about where the library
catalog is going talks on page 34 about Interconnectivity within the
library.  It says that many librarians are choosing to link their
automated library catalog to the library web page so that with a click,
students can open the library catalog without having to go to the menu or
find a library icon to click on.

I can find no one in my district who knows how this might be done.  If I
have the catalog software on every computer in the building, is there
language that will allow a student to click on the web page link and open
the application on the computers hard drive?  I'm looking for something
that wouldn't have to go through the web server, but would go directly to
a computer's hard drive.

If you know how to do this, have done it or know where I can go to find an
answer, I would really appreciate your input.  Thanks!  Pat


Patricia Moore, Media Specialist 
North Polk Jr. Sr. High School 
Alleman IA 50007 
moore at comet.n-polk.k12.ia.us
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/MediaCenter.html 
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