The Electronic Library: Volume 12 Issue 4

Librarianship — Swedish‐style

Gunnel Stjernvall

The invitation to write a Guest Editorial for The Electronic Library came at an opportune time for me, as it enables me to share some of the thoughts that have recently…

Electronic libraries — visions of the future

Philip Barker

Throughout their history, libraries have played many important roles within the context of knowledge archival, information retrieval and knowledge dissemination. Today…

Creation of a database of references using CDS/ISIS

S. Amba, R. Meenakshi, S. Subba Rao

CDS/ISIS was used to develop a database of references for publications of the Central Leather Research Institute. This database is to serve not only as a bibliographic…

A review of qualitative and quantitative measures in collection analysis

P.E. Ephraim

While not dismissing the raging debate on whether quantitative measures are more efficacious than qualitative in collection analysis, this paper posits that a mix of the…

Multimedia — myth or reality?

John Townsend

Multimedia technology has been the object of hype for a number of years now. But what is it really? Is it a viable commercial solution or simply a fringe technology with…

Compact high‐capacity hard disks

Howard Falk

Just a few years ago, the primary reason for purchasing a high‐capacity hard disk was to store huge data files. At that time, 200 million byte hard disks were thought to…

Sonar Bookends: Index Generation

Patrick Canganelli

While it is true that some wordprocessors have the capability to produce their own indices, Sonar Bookends offers the advantage that users do not have to mark words and…

News

June's American Library Association conference saw first announcement of an online searching and document delivery system which UMI claims is ‘unlike anything available…