The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
Hello and goodbye to all that
Ben Jeapes‘It [a Sinclair ZX81] was about as small as a computer could be without being a pocket calculator. But, if you bought enough wobbly additional bits, including a tiny…
Information service, students and the Internet
Wang WanjunThe Internet has exciting potential for information services and education, so must urgently be studied in information circles. We saw the potential of the Internet at…
News
Organisations in the UK and Ireland representing the directors of the national and university libraries, and twenty of the most significant research universities, have…
Biomedical journals and the World Wide Web
Dirk SchoonbaertNow that the World Wide Web has changed previously arcane electronic publishing into a popular everyday phenomenon, fulfilling the exciting promises of many years, a…
The Kulturarw Project — The Swedish Royal Web Archive
Allan Arvidson, Frans LettenströmKB (Kungliga biblioteket, The Royal Library), The National Library of Sweden, was founded in the 1500s. Since 1661, when the first Legal Deposit Law was introduced, it has…
Push and the politics of the Internet
Nancy K. HertherWe are in the midst of a major technology shift. The Internet holds the promise of radically changing not only the medium of future information, from paper to computer…
Indexing the Nordic countries
Anders ArdöWhat was the aim in building a Nordic search engine? The goals were to build a system that:
Implementation of an online database for tables of contents of books
M. Jett, B. Reuse, G. KesslingMany small libraries do not have the resources to build a holdings database. Thanks to the avail‐ability of affordable scanners and improved OCR software, a new approach…
CD Recorders
Howard FalkIn 1997, some 1.6 million CD recording units were sold. One reason is that you can now buy a CD recorder at a street price that starts below $400.
New on the net
The 4th Tetralogy: Exploring Plato's Middle Dialogues. The purpose of this site is to take advantage of the growing body of literature on the Internet and new…
The information society
The European Commission has called for an International Charter for the online economy, arguing that a framework is necessary to tackle the technical, legal and social…
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hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle