The Electronic Library: Volume 10 Issue 4

Digital information organization and use

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The Electronic Library Manager's guide to the transfer and diffusion of new technology

Librarians and information specialists are now becoming much more involved in finding out about new technology and how they can use it themselves as well as for making things…

Software for information storage and retrieval tested, evaluated and compared Part IV — Indexing and full‐text retrieval programs

E.G. Sieverts, M. Hofstede, B. Oude Groeniger

In this article, the fourth in a series on microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, test results of six indexing and full‐text retrieval programs are…

Working with display screen equipment — do you know your rights?

Anne Morris

The European Community Directive 90/270/EEC, issued in 1990, concerns the minimum health and safety standards of display screen users. The Directive becomes law in the UK and the…

CD‐ROM and the academic reference librarian: a review of the literature

Barbara J. Thornburg

CD‐ROM has changed the life and the work day of the reference librarian in many ways, and with tremendous consequences.

CD‐ROM as a library equivalent

Harold T. Reid

CD‐ROM technology has reached the point where just a few discs can equal the holdings of a small print library. Reference works used by libraries in hard copy are available on…

The CD‐ROM market in Catalonia

Adela d'Alòs‐Moner

The CD‐ROM market has enjoyed strong growth in recent years in Spain, similar to the experience in other countries. This article, which gathers together existing data from other…

Computer input scanning devices

Howard Falk

Scanning devices make it possible to transfer images from paper onto disc, where they can be processed, displayed and printed.

ASK*ME: Multimedia Authoring Package

Cheryl Dunlap

The ASK*ME package allows authors with no programming experience to integrate graphics, video, sound, and text into interactive computer presentations that supply information at…

News

Copyright or wrong The appointment of a man with a legal rather than a scientific background as the new Director of Chemical Abstracts Service (see Robert J. Massie in the…

Report on the XXII Annual Conference of ACURIL

Ketty Rodriguez

The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) held its XXII Annual Conference in Port of Spain, Trinidad from 17 to 23 May 1992. The…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle