Accessing LAS via Telnet, Netscape, Gopher, & Network

Scope

• Online library catalogs can be accessed in one or more of four communication methods, depending upon what the particular LAS vendor provides

Standard access methods

• Telnet
  • For remote text-based access to a catalog. This kind of access is rapidly disappearing.
• Web browser
  • For remote graphical access to a catalog.
• Gopher
  • For remote text-based access to a catalog. This technology is almost obsolete, at least in the United States..
• Network
  • Terminals in a library are linked over a local area network (LAN) to a computer that hosts the catalog.
  • Terminals in a large system with multiple branches are linked over a metropolitan network or wide area network (WAN) to a computer that hosts the catalog.
  • Access via network can be text-, graphical-, or Web-based.

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