Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 23 Issue 3

Dynix at Kensington and Chelsea Libraries

Cath Anley, Karl MÜllner

The Dynix Automated Library System was purchased by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Libraries and Arts Service in 1987 to replace its existing Plessey circulation…

Status report on the attitude of automated library system vendors to investing in Nigeria

Adekunle O. Eyitayo

Successful implementation of an automation project depends not only on proper execution by the library or information centre involved, but also on the commitment and on‐going…

OPACs and JANET: a simple technique for easy user access

Jim Burton, José Newport, Everard Robinson

Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) in an increasing number of libraries are now available using the Joint Academic Network (JANET). Until the present time, this access has…

Printers for libraries — recent developments and selection criteria

Rowena C. Rouse

There is a vast range of printers currently available; however, no single printer will completely satisfy all the applications within the library/information environment. Criteria…

MEDUSA: the use of MINISIS in Building Design Partnership

Julia Wilkinson

Building Design Partnership (BDP) the UK's largest multi‐discipline design practice, has been using the text‐retrieval package MINISIS since mid‐1987 to improve the retrieval of…

Use of CDS/ISIS for creating India's database of serials

K. Shailendra, R.N. Neogi, K.L. Gogia

The International Centre in Paris of the International Serials Data System (ISDS) maintains the database of world serial publications and functions through a network of national…

File inversion in CDS/ISIS: Fastsort helps to do it faster

Anwar Ali Chaudhry

The mini‐micro version of CDS/ISIS (Computerised Documentation System/Integrated Set of Information Systems), developed by UNESCO, is a generalised system designed for management…

A regional seminar on national information policies in the Arab States

Faria Zahawi

The Arab countries recognize that the capability to utilize information and knowledge as a main resource for social and economic development, is the basis of progress and social…

A recursive algorithm for generating SLIC index entries

Peter Hancox

Combination indexing is a method of ordering a set of terms or keywords on the syntagmatic axis rather than the paradigmatic axis. All terms applied to the document by the indexer…