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Design and Development of a Network-Based
Electronic Library 
Ray R. Larson
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Abstract:
Among the proposed innovations in the Clinton
Administration's plans to develop a National Information
Infrastructure is the creation of, and support for, digital or
to store and provide access to the vast
amounts of information expected to made available over the ``information
superhighway''. Although the exact nature and future
architecture of such libraries is still a matter for experimentation
(and debate), there are several pioneering efforts underway to
establish electronic libraries and to provide access to them.
This paper describes one such effort underway at the University of
California at Berkeley. In collaboration with four other universities
we are developing interoperable electronic library servers containing
the Computer Science technical reports for each participant and making
them available over the internet using standard protocols.