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Biblio Tech Review (2000) "Z39.50: Part 1--An Overview."
http://www.biblio-tech.com/html/z39_50.html

Biblio Tech Review (2000) "Z39.50: Part 2--Technical Details."
http://www.biblio-tech.com/html/z39_50_part_2.html

Finnigan, Sonya and Ward, Nigel (1997)." Z39.50 Made Simple."
http://www.dstc.edu.au/DDU/projects/ZINC/zsimple.htm

Moen, William E. "The Z Texas Project."
http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj74_4/moen.html

Miller, Paul. "Z39.50 For All."
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950

Lunau, Carrol. "The Bath Profile: what is it and why should I care?"
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/z3950/int_profile/bath/draft/prof.doc

Hartman, Cathy Nelson. (2000, Summer). Z39.50: An introduction in non-technical language. Mississippi Libraries, Vol. 64, No. 2.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~mla/publications/ml/sum00/z3950.html

Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. Version 1.1
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/

NISO Z39.50 Resource Page
http://www.niso.org/z39.50/z3950.html/

The Need for an International Z39.50 Profile for Searching Virtual Union Catalogues
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/resource/vcuc/profiss.pdf

Report to the CIC on the State of Z39.50 Within the Consortium
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/cli/z39-50report.htm

Z39.50: Selected List of Resources (William Moen)
http://www.unt.edu/wmoen/Z3950/BasicZReferences.htm

The Texas Z39.50 Requirements and Specifications Project (William Moen)
http://www.unt.edu/wmoen/Z3950/TexasZDPAug98.htm

An Evaluation of Z39.50 within the SILO Project
http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/bluang.html

ATS-1 Profile.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/ats.html

Preliminary Comparison of Bib-1 Attribute Combinations Amongst Several Profiles.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/resource/vcuc/profcomp.htm

MODELS Library Interoperability Profile Family.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/clumps/technical/zprofile/zprofile.htm

Virtual Union Catalogue Z39.50 Profile, Draft Version 1.5.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/resource/vcuc/profil4.htm

Attribute Set Bib-1 (Z39.50-1995): Semantics
ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/z3950/defs/bib1.txt

Bib-1 Attribute Set
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/bib1.html

ZedWeb: The Distributed Z39.50/Web Gateway Service Project
http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/ZedWeb/

HALINET Request for Proposal -- WWW/Z39.50 Gateway
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/halinet/clahal.htm

ZedWeb Project -- Summary of User Requirements
http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/ZedWeb/user-req.html

Healy, Leigh Watson. (1998, May). Library systems: Current developments and future directions. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources.

Lynch, Clifford A. (1997, Winter). "Building the infrastructure of resource sharing: Union catalogs, distributed search, and cross-database linkage." Library Trends, Vol. 45, No. 3: 448-461.

Turner, Fay. (1998). Selecting a Z39.50 client or web gateway. Library Hi-Tech, Issue 62, Vol. 16, No. 2: 7-18.

Combs, Joseph, Jr.  (1998, December). "Z39.50:  A Survey of Selected Clients for the Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT Operating Environments." Library Software Review, Vol. 17 No. 4: 295-309.

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