Study On Cooperative System Of Distributed Collaborative Digital Reference

Reference service play an important role in library information service, which always been a core service content, help users in the effective use of information. Early reference dominant form of librarian for face-to-face exchanges with readers, and later by telephone, E-mail, fax and other means to expand the space and scope of the reference to a certain extent achieved reference distance service. With the rapid development of computer and network technology, library has entered a new digital era, in this form of development, this has been a reference library capacity core professional services began to radiate new vitality. Digital reference to the initial stage of development is basically operating alone library model exists, according to the needs of a library system design, the provision of services. Although in many library services, through the purchase of a digital reference service system is very widespread, but a growing number of libraries in providing their own network reference service, but also through participation in a large system or regional Union, a project to operate from single to multi-library of the joint collaboration digital reference service. Collaborative digital reference service can provide service by digitized, networked service means an inevitable trend. Digital state-based information environment is distributed characteristics that many different geographical regions and different technological platforms, the use of different forms of organizations retrieval systems coexist, there is an urgent need to establish effective mechanisms for the integration of distributed resources and services environment. Therefore, the "Study on Cooperative System of Distributed Collaborative Digital Reference " is very necessary.