Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 16 Issue 1

An Analysis of UK MARC exchange tape variable data field subfield lengths, 1950–1980

George McMurdo

The Library of the International Airport Projects of the Ministry of Defence and Aviation, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has installed an interactive online system using MARC tapes from…

The University of London shared cataloguing system

Marlene Clayton

The University of London has developed a co‐operative cataloguing system which is administered through the University's Library Resources Co‐ordinating Committee and utilises the…

Data capture by optical scanning of published material for database enhancement

P.G. Jennings, Mrs. L.E. Newman, W.B. Wilkinson

A feasibility study undertaken by the Water Research Centre to capture 30,000 items from Water Pollution Abstracts in machine readable form is reported. The equipment used to…

Automation, appropriate technology and appropriate information systems

S.W. Massil

This paper takes up a question raised by Edward Lim in an article on the MALMARC Project in the issue of July 1980 regarding the place of advanced technology in the libraries of…