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Unlike other texts that involve networks and the Internet, this book is specifically designed for information professionals in library, education, and business settings. Providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to network applications and concepts, this helpful guide covers LANs, WANs, the Internet, IP addresses, network operating systems, routing, domain names, servers, file formats, and more. Case studies illustrate the use of these technologies. Additionally, the book includes information about the economics of the Internet, privacy, intellectual property, and legal issues. Essential for those who are new to network technologies and wish to master them, this book is for anyone wanting to create and publish digital records on the Internet and organize, store, and disseminate information electronically.

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Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students. -Choice Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications. -Public Libraries Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals. -Booklist/Professional Reading Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment. -Journal of Access Services ?Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications.?-Public Libraries ?Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment.?-Journal of Access Services ?Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students.?-Choice ?Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals.?-Booklist/Professional Reading

?Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students.?-Choice

Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students. -Choice Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications. -Public Libraries Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals. -Booklist/Professional Reading Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment. -Journal of Access Services ?Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications.?-Public Libraries ?Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment.?-Journal of Access Services ?Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals.?-Booklist/Professional Reading ?Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students.?-Choice

Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students. -Choice Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications. -Public Libraries Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals. -Booklist/Professional Reading Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment. -Journal of Access Services ?Molyneux provides a readable and often engaging primer for setting up your library, organization, or home office network....a valuable guide for the information professional who either is new to networking or who seeks greater understanding of these technologies and their applications.?-Public Libraries ?Designed specifically for information professionals in library, education, and business settings, this guide serves as an intelligent, highly accessible introduction to networking and its related technical applications and concepts....a commendable tool that should prove highly informative and useful to all information professionals.?-Booklist/Professional Reading ?Molyneux certainly met this reader's expectations of what an excellent volume on networking should be. ...This is a volume that can be read with profit by anyone in the information professions and is especially useful for librarians who currently have only a nodding acquaintance with this second language that is necessary for success in today's information environment.?-Journal of Access Services ?Aimed at information professionals in libraries, education, and business who are novices in the world of networking, this book provides a clear introduction to network technologies....The book will appeal to its intended audience as well as to students in those disciplines learning about networking for the first time. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students.?-Choice

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ROBERT E. MOLYNEUX is Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

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