PATRONS GAIN ONLINE ACCESS TO CITY LIBRARY.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. -- The Palmdale City Library officially introduced a new online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. system Wednesday Wednesday: see week. that allows patrons to access its entire 140,000-item collection through computers there or in their own homes. The $344,000 Millennium system Millennium™ system Dentistry An erbium laser system that uses high-speed water particles to cut hard and soft tissues, as an alternative to a conventional dental drill and surgical scalpel. See Dentistry. also will let users set up personal accounts to check out, reserve and renew books online. "The system we had before was created before we had the World Wide Web. It was text-based (jargon) text-based - Working under a non-window-based operating system (e.g. MS-DOS) as opposed to a graphical user interface (e.g. Microsoft Windows). An MS-DOS text-based program uses a screen with a fixed array of 80x25 or 80x40 characters. . You couldn't use a mouse. There were no graphics. You had to know the secret codes," city Librarian (1) A person who works in the data library and keeps track of the tapes and disks that are stored and logged out for use. Also known as a "file librarian" or "media librarian." See data library. (2) See CA-Librarian. Nancy Quelland said. "We felt it was more than time to replace it with something that was more 21st century." The Millennium system allows library patrons to conduct searches not only by author and title but also by subject matter, genre a or young children, Quelland said. It's even possible to borrow items from the library without ever stepping into the building. Patrons can check out books and have The system is accessible from home by logging onto www.palmdalelibrary.org. There's also a link to the library Web site from the The system requires a Palmdale library card, which can be applied for online. The system has been up and running for a few months and drew rave reviews from frequent library visitor Fran Glick, 57, of Palmda "I love it. It's great. It's easy. You can be an idiot and figure it out," said Glick, who came Wednesday to pick up four books Four Books Chinese Sishu Ancient Confucian texts used as the basis of study for civil service examinations (see Chinese examination system) in China (1313–1905). hey were ready. Future improvements are expected to include a method of paying fines by credit card through P ayPal and the opportunity to write book reviews. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford watches on Wednesday as Palmdale Librarian Nancy Quelland demonstrates the library's new online catalog service called Millennium. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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