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Since the establishment of the great library of alexandria,
libraries have provided a critically important role in
the cultural development of our global collective knowledge
base.
Today's libraries are under-going a new generation of change
as we move even faster into the world of broadand networks
and inter-connected repositories of the world's information
emerging from libraries, scholars, publishers, museums
and public broadcasting.
Welcome to Sun where we are exploring the new technologies,
methodologies and initiatives to take humanity to the next
step of knowledge discovery.
Shaping Information Models for the future: Stanford's Digital Library project
Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Resources at Stanford University, is collaborating with a diverse group of librarians, scholars, professional programmers, and systems integrators to redefine and simplify access to vast repositories of information.
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The largest libraries in the world, including the Library of Congress, the Russian State Library, U.C. Berkeley, and Oxford University run on Sun. Our success in the library market is driven by the superior scalability and reliability of the Sun platform, strong relationships with best-of-breed library software vendors, and our presence and investment in the education community. Sun is also emerging as the choice for large university digital library environments, such as the innovative work being done at Cornell University, Sun's Center of Excellence for Digital Libraries.
As libraries shift from physical to digital collections, from repository to gateway, Sun's network-centric computing technologies provide the ideal platform for the library of tomorrow.
Sun provides a scalable family of departmental and enterprise servers, storage products and Solaris operating environment. Enabled by Hot Desk technology and server software, Sun Ray appliances are the ultimate desktop for library patrons. They provide instant access to the web, Solaris Operating System software, Java technology-based software and multimedia as well as Windows NT and legacy applications. The Sun Ray appliances gives you centralized administration while delivering a rich user experience. The "plug-and-work" Sun Ray appliances require no client administration or upgrades while at the same time putting the power of the server on your desktop. On top of that, you get the unique capability of "hot desking" - the ability to instantly access your computing session from any appliance in your server group -- exactly where you left off.
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