Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 21 Issue 2

Library consultancy in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Overseas Development Administration

Peter D. Griffiths, Elizabeth A MacLachlan

Most of the literature of library consultancy has been written by practising consultants. It concentrates on what consultants require to do their job and their perceptions of the…

Text storage and retrieval in the ORACLE relational database management system: design study and intended applications

John H Ashford

A requirement has been recognised for some time for database software which provides both formatted data and free text management facilities. Applications in storage and retrieval…

Cataloguing to UK MARC records for the uninitiated using dBase III

Alan Findlay, Sam Motherwell

Entry of data in the format of MARC records is a difficult procedure involving the use of codes which have to be memorised or located from manuals. We suggest that a program can…

Development of an integrated automated system in the Department of Printed Books in the National Library of Wales

David Jeremiah

This article presents a resumé of the development, implementation and the first year of live operation in the Department of Printed Books at the National Library of Wales of a…

Using the MULTIPLAN spreadsheet package to model online search costs

N.R. Smith

An existing model for calculating online search costs has been converted to electronic form using the spreadsheet package MULTIPLAN. The electronic version of the model proves to…

Enriched title‐based keyword index generation using dBase II

P.P. Rajendran

One of the options open to libraries and other information service organisations in developing countries wishing to move into the age of microcomputer automation is that of…

MARKUP: an expert assistant for marking up bibliographic data

R.D. Prangnell

Among the routine tasks carried out in a special library such as the one at Building Research Station (BRS), there are a number which depend on the application of special or…

Multi‐value fields and dBase III

Shelia Vaughan

Many of us are aware of the yawns of waiting for dBase to look sequentially through a 10,000‐record database for a term or terms hidden in a title or descriptor field. I have…

Report on the Optical Disc Technology Conference organised by the Library Association Information Technology Group, 29 October 1986

Adie Scott

This was a useful and informative introduction to the technology and its applications.