Program: electronic library and information systems
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Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents: Volume 26 Issue 3
Character sets: towards a standard solution?
Susanna Peruginelli, Giovanni Bergamin, Pino AmmendolaCharacter coding systems such as ASCII and EBCDIC are unable to deal with the worldwide range of characters and so possible solutions, such as ISO 10646 and Unicode…
Library automation in Spain: an overview
Alice Keefer, Miguel JiménezSpain's libraries have experienced considerable change in the past decade as a result of governmental restructuring and the general economic boom, after many years of…
A unified automation system using VTLS for academic libraries in Finland
Esko HäkliDuring a period of five years (1989–1993) all academic libraries in Finland (20 institutions) will install the same local library system and will be connected with each…
The modernisation of Portuguese libraries — five decisive years
Maria Luísa Cabral, Maria Inês LopesRecent developments in Portuguese libraries are described with special attention to the application of new information technologies. The obvious modernisation largely…
SIBIL and REBUS: a regional cataloguing service in Switzerland, France and Luxembourg
Genevieve Clavel‐MerrinThe SIBIL system originated in software developed for the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire in Lausanne, Switzerland in the early 1970s. SIBIL is now seen as a…
Producing the Irish Publishing Record at the National Library of Ireland
T J.D., Brian McKenna, Clara CullenA CEC‐funded project to automate the production of the Irish Publishing Record at the National Library of Ireland is described. The project is based around record sharing…
Automation of document handling at Radio‐France
Catherine LeloupThis article describes the automation of a documentation centre which provides services to journalists and news editors at Radio‐France (the major French broadcasting…
A UK market survey of library automation system vendors (1990–1991)
John Blunden‐EllisThis paper updates previous papers which surveyed the large library system marketplace in the UK. The present study based on the results of questionnaires distributed in…