The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 1
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
IT path from East to West
Nina StoyanovaMoving from a small Eastern European country to North America (Canada) while working in the IT industry gave me an exciting experience and an opportunity to think about the…
News
An agreement has been reached giving UMI rights to publish print and microform editions of doctoral dissertations and masters theses written at universities throughout Canada. The…
Smartcards in libraries: A brave new world
Martin MyhillThe University of Exeter Library, in conjunction with NatWest UK and Mondex, commenced a pilot smartcard project in October 1996. The smartcard functions as a campus card…
Taking the initiative for digital libraries
Stephen M. Griffin is Program Manager of the Digital Libraries Initiative at the National Science Foundation (http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DLHome.html).
The danger of the digital library
Walt Crawford is a Senior Analyst for the Research Libraries Group (http://www.rlg.org) where he designs and develops library‐related applications, with an emphasis on the user…
The view from the supply side
Graham Beastall is Chairman of Soutron Ltd, Inmagic's UK partner and a company that deals primarily with management systems for libraries.
Focus news
A pilot project is underway in the US to make public‐domain reports from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) available to libraries online. Delivery will be…
CAS‐IAS services: Where are we now?
Mary Davies, Frances Boyle, Susan OsborneThe growth of CAS‐IAS (current alerting service — individual article supply) services in the 1990s has not delivered the rapid benefits expected by information practitioners. This…
The near future trend: Combining Web access and local CD networks. Experience and a few suggestions
Wei MaThis paper discusses the complementary nature of two media, Web access and CD networks, with emphasis on three points: (1) combining Web access and CD networks — their importance…
Building and using document databases
Howard FalkIt is reassuring to realise that electronic documents have a permanence which promises to outlive paper. Documents that have existed only as pasted scraps of newsprint, fading…
New on the net
A Web of On‐line Dictionaries. Not just an online dictionary but a site that includes dictionaries in over 130 languages, from Afrikaans to Xhosa. Other sections are: Multilingual…
The information society
The EC has decided to initiate formal infringement procedures against seven Member States in order to force them to speed up measures deemed necessary for the liberalisation of…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle