The Electronic Library: Volume 15 Issue 1
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The automated library systems market
David J. MurrayI started working in this industry over 17 years ago and have spent the majority of that time working for commercial companies specialised in library automation. In the past few…
News
We start off with a number of project announcements. An Australian project has been initiated by the National Library of Australia to investigate strategies and implement…
The librarian and the library user: what the future holds
One of the sessions at Online Information 96, held in London in December last year, looked at the future of the librarian's profession in this age of disintermediation: a term…
Europe's Libraries Programme
You won't hear politicians talking about it — the single European currency and subsidiarity are far more headline‐grabbing topics — but the European Union has definite ideas on…
Focus Interview
Ariane IljonBehind the EU's Libraries Programme is Unit XIII/E‐4: head of the Unit, and hence very influential in the way that Europe's libraries will develop in the future, is Mrs Ariane…
Learning to live with e‐journals
Ben JeapesThe Electronic Library recently received a disappointed e‐mail asking why the journal, with a title like that, wasn't available electronically. A very good question, which is only…
Personal bibliographic systems (PBS) for the PC: A generic survey of features
Dirk SchoonbaertPersonal bibliographic systems (PBS) manage the input, storage, retrieval and output of bibliographic references, allowing for a number of different document types to accommodate…
World Wide Web search and retrieval
Howard FalkThe World Wide Web is like a huge country, dotted with hundreds of thousands of sites, and each site contains some information. Despite the size of this country, transportation…
Writing the book on virtual business
Bob Duffy‘Earth's largest bookstore’, as its proprietors term it, is accessible only through the World Wide Web.
The information society
Schools and the Information Society. The European Commission has launched an action plan entitled ‘Learning in the Information Society’ which is designed to speed up the process…
New on the net
The British Prime Minister's Office has recently opened a Web site. Although it does contain selected Prime Minister's speeches, transcripts and interviews, Prime Ministers'…
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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