 IBM Softcopy Librarian
A part of the BookManager family of products, the Softcopy Librarian lets you set up and maintain BookManager bookshelf and book repositories using a variety of sources. You can obtain and transfer bookshelves of books from: CD collections, the IBM PUBLIB Web site, or from a local hard disk. Note: In general, using the Internet to obtain books from IBM might be slower than using CDs. We recommend that you use the IBM CD-ROM collections for the normal quarterly refreshes, and use the Internet only for updating your repositories between quarters with latest releases or a few critically important bookshelves. The Softcopy Librarian keeps a catalog of all the bookshelves and book files that you send to your repository from any level of a CD, from your local hard drive, or from the IBM PUBLIB Web site. When a new level of a bookshelf arrives, on a new CD or at the PUBLIB Web site, the SoftCopy Librarian compares it and its contents with the catalog and shows you whether it's brand new or whether it's changed since the last level you received. You now have a way to see at a glance which shelves on a CD or at the PUBLIB Web site are currently in your repository. |