The Electronic Library: Volume 14 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The information superhighway and the Information Society: An association view
Ben GoedegebuureAlmost daily we are bombarded in the press about the ‘information superhighway’ and the ‘Information Society’ — how they will change our lives and our work, and what new services…
News
Users of electronic information came under the spotlight at the OCLC Users Council meeting in February. The council comprises librarians from networks and other partners who…
SGML: A librarian's perception
Jan Corthouts, Richard PhilipsSGML, or Standard Generalised Markup Language, is an international standard (ISO 8879) allowing the logical structure of electronic documents to be represented rigorously and…
Academic staff, students and the Internet: The experience at the University of Westminster
Barry B. BlinkoThe Internet has exciting potential in education. In Higher Education this can lead to new ways of teaching. This can only be achieved if efforts are made to use and develop…
Libraries on the Web
What motivates a library to go on the World Wide Web in the first place? What can it do once it's there? What problems have to be overcome and what advantages are there? Three…
Serving the Internet public: the Internet Public Library
The two topics of libraries and the Web would seem to blend perfectly in the Internet Public Library (IPL) (http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/). The Library opened on 17 March 1995. IPL's…
Public libraries, public Internet
Today Croydon, tomorrow the world Chris Batt, Borough Libraries and Museum Officer for the London Borough of Croydon, believes that public libraries can use the Internet to become…
Tools for the Internet — Channelling the information tidal wave
Stephen Cooke, Andrea KauppilaInTEXT Systems delivers software products and technologies for content‐based routing, retrieval, development and presentation for mission‐critical workgroup, Internet and World…
Internet health information sources
Caroline A. Stevens, Anne Morris, Goff SargentA study has been carried out into sources of consumer health information available in the UK, with particular emphasis on the use of electronic sources of health information As…
Government Web pages: the lights are on but nobody is home
Julie JohnsonThis article sets out the writer's impressions gleaned from an extensive examination of the homepages mounted on the World Wide Web by governments and government agencies. The…
Information strategy stands the test of time
Janice M. BlantonThe decentralised information strategy upon which the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) was established has stood the test of time. INIS celebrated its 25th…
A change is as bad as a rest
Peter KrugerChange within our lives … Change is an important feature of the natural world. Everything is in a state of flux. The simplest organisms mutate. Social structures alter…
World Watch
David RaittWorld Watch is a nifty little software package for Windows which displays world and regional maps showing cities and the local time for various locations selected by the user. In…
PDAs: Palm‐size computing power
Howard FalkPDAs — Personal Digital Assistants — are pocket‐size computing devices that are capable of performing tasks similar to those of personal computers. The basic strength of PDAs is…
The information society
Canada has instituted an automated system that allows individual income tax return information to be delivered to Revenue Canada electronically.
New on the net
The home page of JJ&K Searchers, a service that helps locate and reunite adoptees/birthparents.
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle