The Electronic Library: Volume 11 Issue 4/5
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
The Second Southern African Online Information Meeting
Neville SpicerTwo years ago, in my introduction to the First Southern African Online Information Meeting, I said how thrilled I was to see so many delegates. For the Second Southern…
The future of online information: challenges and opportunities
Roger K. SummitInformation retrieval as a concept or a technique is not generally recognized beyond the profession as a societal need or even necessarily as a useful tool. It has often…
Ensuring online information usability
Toby ChanceThe debate around developing online information systems has tended to focus on the technology options. These include hypertext, image processing, document management…
Remote users of an online public access catalogue (OPAC): problems and support
Marthie de KockNetworks allow different users from outside the library remote access to library catalogues. These remote users may face problems that differ from the OPAC users' in the…
InfoAccess — platform for the distribution of Southern African information
R. McGillivrayLocal information distribution in electronic form in South Africa is a new and growing industry. Research shows that in any country the needs of users of information are…
Local area network expansion at WITS
Julie WilcocksWith the rapid development of computer technology, new and sophisticated facilities become available every few months. The skill of planning expansion or development lies…
EMBASE in the nineties: new methods of database production and exploitation
Annette HerholdtDeveloping and maintaining a competitive edge in the information business today will periodically require the timely and smooth transition from older to state‐of‐the‐art…
Hypermedia, multimedia and hypertext: definitions and overview
Hester Bornman, S.H. von SolmsIn this paper I will discuss definitions of hypermedia, multimedia and hypertext. Hypertext is the grouping of relevant information in the form of nodes. These nodes are…
Electronic publishing: electric book or battery brochure?
Johan van WykElectronic publishing as a phrase is as meaningless as ‘automatic’ or ‘user‐friendly’, only it is still serving an apprenticeship compared to the latter two. Yet, it is…
The integration of document image processing and text retrieval principles
Niël van der MerweThis paper will discuss the integration of document image processing and text retrieval principles in order to process and load existing paper documents automatically in…
Enabling South Africa: development of an intelligent gateway
Ed EvansThe new South Africa needs information and the CSIR has enabled end‐users to search international and local databases using an intelligent gateway to provide easy…
Electronic health information services: a review
Glenda MyersMedical libraries have been involved with automated services for over a century, beginning with the association of John Shaw Billings, the Director of the Library of the…
Teaching online searching in a LAN environment
Pieter A. van BrakelTertiary programmes for teaching online searching consist typically of the components of an online search system, different categories of databases, overview of database…
CDROM in developing countries: is it a technology for the distribution of information?
Bright W.M. NkhataThe distribution of information using CDROM technology in developing countries would be regarded as playing a very important role in disseminating information in areas…
Worldwide trends in CDROM publishing
Geoffrey StonemanGood morning, ladies and gentlemen. My paper today is on the subject of worldwide trends in CDROM publishing and I wish to present this within the framework of the…
CDROM publishing and retrieval using a Local Area Network
D.S. LateganThe other day I went shopping with my family. My daughter pointed out that there is a special classical music collection on CD. It was a good price and I bought it. At…
CDROM versus online: the UK perspective
Richard HollisThis paper provides an overview of the arguments for and against the delivery of electronic information via CDROM and online services. To support this overview, the…
Subject authority control in a computerised system: use of CDMARC Subjects in an academic library
D.M. Mbaakanyi, F.N. Ubogu, E. LumandeAuthority control is one of the methods designed to maintain the quality and integrity of the catalogue as a bibliographic tool, bringing together the variant forms of the…
The EUROCAT project — the integration of European Community multidisciplinary and document‐oriented databases on CDROM: An exercise in merging data from several databases into a single database as well as solving the problem of multi‐lingualism
Richard HainebachThe Institutions of the European Communities produce a number of document‐oriented databases based on publications and documents distributed either by the Office for…
Materials science and technology: an overview of databases online and on CDROM
Jill FeldtThis paper is a practical introduction to searching for bibliographic information on engineering materials. It is not intended as a ‘how‐to’ guide; rather, its aim is to…
The culture of net navigation
Rick GatesIn this column, I'd like to deviate from the normal focus on the mechanics of network tools and instead take some time to step back and reflect on the culture of network…
Laser printers
Howard FalkPersonal computer users now expect their systems to produce printed output that looks very much as if it had been typeset at a professional printing shop. In other words…
News
A pan‐European network for the academic, government and commercial research community is to be provided by DANTE, launched in July in Cambridge, England. The name stands…
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hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle