The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 5
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The ‘Digital Divide’: Are we becoming a world of technological ‘haves’ and ‘have‐nots?’
Joan Sidney HowlandThe printing press, steam engine, Winchester repeating rifle, automobile, and cable television are all technological advancements which commentators claimed would revolutionize…
News
The BIDS service has evolved into a public/private sector alliance, with the University of Bath and ingenta teaming up.
Does the Virtual Classroom really exist………or is it still……….out there
Jim SinclairEducators are currently very enthusiastic about the potential of online education. But, is this really achievable? In distance education literature and meetings the current ‘hot…
Driving the bush track to the superhighway: The Maroochy Mobile Library experience
Lyndall OsborneAs non‐traditiona! entry to higher education increases, combined with high quality distance education and parttime learning opportunities which create an emphasis on the concept…
The Builder Project
Stephen Pinfield, the Project Leader of the BUILDER (Birmingham University Integrated Library Development and Electronic Resource) Project spoke to Brian McKenna, the Journals…
Bibliographic displays and Web catalogues: User evaluations of three prototype displays
Richard W. Kopak, Joan M. CherryThis paper presents an evaluation of three Web based prototypes for bibliographic displays developed as part of an ongoing research project at the Faculty of Information Studies…
Application and implications of agent technology for libraries
Bonnie A. Nardi, Vicki L. O'DayIn a previous paper (Nardi & O'Day 1996), we chose to begin thinking about intelligent software agents with a detailed look at what human agents do. Our interest is in agents that…
Huge hard disks
Howard FalkVirtually any personal computer user who uses contemporary software probably needs a huge hard disk storage drive that holds 6, or 10 or more gigabytes (remember, a gigabyte is…
New on the net
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection includes items from American literature, English literature…
The information society
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has urged all the country's political parties to adopt the recommendations of a major new research strategy report, released on 18 September…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle