Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 28 Issue 3

Comparing automated map catalogue systems: A pilot study based in the National Library of Wales

Christopher Fleet

The article describes a project undertaken at the National Library of Wales to compare automated systems for the storage and retrieval of historic cartographic records. The…

Talis at Nene: an experience in migration in a college library

Maurice Wilson

Nene College in Northampton was the first of BLCMP's customers to migrate from its existing BLS system to the new UNIX‐based Talis. The article outlines the rationale behind the…

Text retrieval and library management software in India

G.G. Chowdhury, Sudatta Chowdhury

Automated text retrieval and library management systems have not yet taken a desired shape in Indian libraries, though efforts are being made in this direction. A number of…

Multimedia in museums: an overview of its developments

Carina Huguet Valls

The fundamental role that the new optical multimedia information technologies play in the museum context is analysed as a solution to problems in the management of museographic…

Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (the ‘Follett’) Report — the contribution of the Information Technology Sub‐committee

Lynne J. Brindley

The Funding Councils of England, Scotland and Wales, and the Department of Education for Northern Ireland set up a Review of library provision in higher education in the Autumn of…

The Iconographic Collections Videodisc at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London

William Schupbach

Many libraries, museums, galleries, and heritage centres are thinking of using electronic media to help them to achieve some of their aims, and a much smaller number have started…

COBISS — Co‐operative Online Bibliographic System and Services in Slovenia

Tomaž Seljak

In this contribution the construction and organisation of the Co‐operative Online Bibliographic System and Services (COBISS) in Slovenia is described. It is dealt with in…

Report on the second annual conference of the Arabian Gulf Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, January 1994

Lucy A. Tedd

The Arabian Gulf Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (AGC/SLA) was founded in 1992 with the objectives of communicating, disseminating and using information effectively…