Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 28 Issue 1

Transient technology? The future of CD‐ROMs in libraries

Nick Bevan

In a celebrated article, published in 1990, McSean and Law described CD‐ROM as a ‘transient technology’. This paper provides a starting point for a general discussion on the…

Design and development of a user interface for the library's database at ICRISAT

P. Ratnakumar, L.J. Haravu

This paper describes the development of a user interface to a composite database, i.e. one containing records for library‐held monographs as well as for journal articles…

Developing a hypertext guide to an academic library: problems and progress

Richard Biddiscombe, Morag Watson

This article describes the development of a hypertext guide to the University of Birmingham Main Library. Using Asymetrix Toolbook software the guide offers users a description of…

The Italian library network: SBN — Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale

Isa De Pinedo

The aim of this article is to provide a brief introduction and description of SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale), the Italian national network which has been working as a…

New perspectives on library management systems: a Pilgrim's Progress

Richard Heseltine

The outlook now for the library automation industry is perhaps more positive than at any other time in recent years. At last there are real prospects for change and growth…

Adding journal holdings information to bibliographic records downloaded from online databases

Jilian R. Brock

This short communication outlines a method being developed at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, for indicating whether journal papers located by searching…

ELAG 93: report of the library systems seminar on the virtual library

Paula Goossens

The 17th ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Library Systems Seminar took place at Graz, Austria from 14 to 16 April 1993. The theme ‘The Virtual Library’ attracted 110…

A research student's view of the CTILIS workshop, April 1993

Elizabeth McDermott

The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) is a programme funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK with, as its…

Report on a visit to Egypt, April 1993

Lucy A. Tedd

In April 1993 I visited Egypt following a request to the British Council from the Department of Librarianship, Information and Archival studies at Cairo University. I had briefly…