The Electronic Library: Volume 10 Issue 6

A management perspective on information service value

Marianne Broadbent

These are quotes from information service managers taken from my recent research and consulting work, including extensive reviews of information and library service…

An online library catalogue

Giovanna Alloro, Donatella Ugolini

This paper starts with a description of a project to introduce automation in the libraries of the National Institute for Cancer Research and the Clinical and Experimental…

‘I can read but I can't turn the pages’

Chris Page

Hereward College is the UK National Residential College for students with physical and sensory disabilities. It offers a full range of further education courses combined…

Software for information storage and retrieval tested, evaluated and compared Part V — Personal information managers, Hypertext and Relevance ranking programs

E.G. Sieverts, M. Hofstede, G. Lobbestael, B. Oude Groeniger, F. Provost, P. Šikovà

In this article, the fifth in a series on microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, test results of seven programs are presented and various properties…

New model for multimedia interfaces to online public access catalogues

Annelise Mark Pejtersen

The Book House is an interactive, multimedia, online public access catalogue designed to support casual, novice users in information retrieval. It uses icons, text and…

Establishing an in‐house documentation system and the role of the library as exemplified by the GSF Research Centre

Martina Reich

The possibilities for creating an in‐house documentation system within a special library are described. The responsibilities assumed by a library at a large institution…

OCLC's linking strategy: Internet and NREN

Advances in telecommunications are providing libraries with the ability to link networks, to move information at faster and faster speeds and to combine data in ways…

Norton Commander

Rosemarie Namotka Jordan

Norton Commander provides DOS services such as edit, copy, rename, move and delete. Users can quickly and easily view contents of directories and files and can also search…

News

Gore supports IT Will the next Vice President of the United States push information technology to the forefront of America's domestic policy? It may well happen because Al…

American Society for Information Science 1992 mid‐year meeting

Mary Jo Bruce

The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held its 1992 mid‐year meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 28–30 May. The theme of the meeting was ‘Networks…