The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 6

Information literacy — The final key to an information society

Nigel Oxbrow

The information society, the information age, the knowledge based society, the knowledge driven economy are all now familiar terms. Governments have been promoting them…

News

An image data research institute has been launched at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, in the UK. The institute gathers together academics from a range of…

The management of digital data: A metadata approach

Alison Chilvers, John Feather

We are increasingly reliant on information technology for data exchange and long‐term data storage. For this global environment, we need a universal data management…

The role of the information professional in the ‘Knowledge Economy’

Philip Barker, Pieter A. van Brakel

We have taken as the theme of the interview section of this issue's Focus (‘The Changing Face of Information’) the question of the role of the information professional in…

The use and importance of the Internet in literature‐based services in children's libraries

Sarah Ormes

This paper explores some of the issues surrounding the development of Internet services in public library children's services. It notes that IT services have generally…

Technical Service and the World Wide Web: Building the NTU Library Cataloging Home Page

Amanda Harizan, Low Ke Khoon

More and more technical service divisions world‐wide, especially American libraries, have created Home Pages on the World Wide Web. These Home Pages vary in design and…

Network Operating Systems

As libraries make increasing use of computer resources, a local network that interconnects personal computers and other machines within the library is becoming a necessity.

New on the net

Cyberliability: generic term coined in the late 1990s for various types of legal liability arising from business use of the Internet and e‐mail including cyber‐libel…

The information society

In a recent interview for Wired News, Charles Zhang, founder and CEO of Internet Technologies China, spoke of the development of his company's product, Sohoo.