Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 22 Issue 1

Relevance feedback in a public access catalogue for a research library: Muscat at the Scott Polar Research Institute

Martin Porter, Valerie Galpin

This paper reports on the successful introduction of a sophisticated online catalogue system at the library of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, using the Muscat…

Improving subject access painlessly: recent work on the Okapi online catalogue projects

Stephen Walker

Online catalogue research at PCL (the Polytechnic of Central London) has now been going on, mainly with British Library funding, for nearly five years. This article gives a brief…

STATUS with IQ — escaping from the boolean straitjacket

D.L. Pape, R.L. Jones

STATUS with IQ is a free text retrieval system which invites the user to enter a query either by specifying search terms which reflect concepts relative to the user's information…

INSTRUCT: a teaching package for experimental methods in information retrieval. Part III. Browsing, clustering and query expansion

Stephen J. Wade, Peter Willett

INSTRUCT is a multi‐user, text retrieval system which was developed as an interactive teaching package for demonstrating modern information retrieval techniques, these including…

CATALYST: an expert assistant for cataloguing

Forbes Gibb, CarolynSharif

Research into the application of expert systems to information and library science has gained momentum over the last three to four years. Broadly, this research can be divided…

Searching LISA on the SilverPlatter CD‐ROM system

N.L. Moore

Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) became available on CD‐ROM in May 1987. Officially, the database consists of a complete file of LISA, from its launch in January…

CD‐ROMs at ALA: a review of product developments from the American Library Association midsummer exhibition

ANDY StephenS

CD‐ROM (Compact Disc‐Read Only Memory) products have arrived for library and information professionals in North America! If more proof were needed than the proliferation of…

Memories of the future: new library technologies in information transfer, processing and storage — the Library Association Information Technology Group's Third Annual Conference, 12–14 June 1987

Adie Scott

Any attempt to describe this conference cannot hope to do justice to the scope and content of the papers, some of which are being reproduced in Its News. The conference was opened…

Cardbox‐plus and the design of the Anglo‐Welsh database

John Davies

This project represents a rarity among the production of specialised databases: one intended to give detailed access to a small area of imaginative, rather than scientific…