Program: electronic library and information systems

Harwell Library's SPARC: (Serials, Periodicals and Accounts Records on Computer)

E.M. Haynes

This paper describes the development and implementation of Harwell Library's accounting and periodicals housekeeping functions on a microcomputer. The accounting programs…

An in‐house system for cataloguing, retrieval and loans in the Irish Meteorological Service Library

Lisa Shields

A description is given of the system produced by the Irish Meteorological Service Library for computerised cataloguing and retrieval, linked to an automated loans/returns…

Using ISDN for document delivery

Bill Tuck

As part of Quartet, a research project funded by the British Library, University College London (UCL) has been investigating the use of digital telephone networks for…

LANSLIDE — the development of a system for managing a slide collection at the University of Lancaster Library

Ken Harrison, Winifred R. Clark

The LANSLIDE slide management system developed by the University of Lancaster Library is a multi‐user, stand‐alone system designed for operation on an IBM PC‐AT (or…

Two for the price of one: how to squeeze a DBMS out of a WP

Gillian Martin

Managers of information units with limited budgets must find little comfort in the endless stream of ‘never had it so good’ articles. Microcomputers are daily becoming…

Applications of the Psion organiser at Strathclyde University Library

Dennis Nicholson

The Psion organiser is a small hand‐sized computer about the size of a (thick) pocket diary. Despite its size, it is a complete computer by any reasonable definition, with…