The Electronic Library: Volume 17 Issue 2

A digital library for education: the PEN‐DOR project

Karen Fullerton, Jane Greenberg, Maureen McClure, Edie Rasmussen, Darin Stewart

Recent initiatives in digital library research have suggested new models for the creation and organisation of digital information and its dissemination to virtual communities…

Evaluation of library Web sites: the Danish case

Helge Clausen

This paper presents the major findings from the project “Development of new methods for evaluation of library Web sites on the World Wide Web”. The report includes a brief…

Virtual OPACs versus union database: two models of union catalogue provision

Shirley Cousins

Z39.50 is often put forward as a means of providing a virtual union catalogue without the need for a physical union database. This paper considers some of the major technical and…

Access versus holdings: document delivery realities

Frances Boyle, Mary Davies

The access versus holdings debate has been one of the “hot topics” within the information world for some time, and the performance of document delivery services is an integral…

Computer intrusions and attacks

Howard Falk

Many library computers are now connected to each other through networks and to the rest of the world through the Internet. Current information of unprecedented scope and scale is…