One of the duties of the Public Services Computing Group in the Anaheim Public Library is to evaluate new products for consideration and make appropriate recommendations to management as to whether or not to pursue purchase。 In making the evaluations， the group tries to maintain the best value of print， CD-ROM and online resources for library customers。 This paper reviews the evaluation of two products as they were considered as replacements for their CD-ROM counterparts。 In both cases， the Web based product from the same vendor as the CD-ROM product was considered。 In the case of Newsbank newpapers， a positive recommendation came from the group to replace the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times CD-ROMs with their Web counterparts。 In the case of Reference USA a negative recommendation the group gave a negative recommendation and American Business Disc Continues to run on Anaheim's Wide Area Network。 A discussion of the evaluation that led to these decisions is included。
Public LibrariesCD-ROMsInternetcomparative evaluation
Tbomas Edelblute
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National conference on integrated online library systems
New York, NY(US)
Fifteeth National Conference on Integrated Online Library Systems New York, May 17-18, 2000
NETL
