The Electronic Library: Volume 22 Issue 3

Information architecture

Information architecture has gradually crept into prominence over the last few years as one of the new buzz words in Web design. This article examines the definition and…

Electronic libraries and the emergence of new service paradigms

Enabling technologies have led to the transformation of library services from traditional services incorporating card catalogs, printed books and periodicals…

Health and safety and piracy: legal risk minimisation in libraries

This article presents a preliminary discussion of two points of interest. Part one puts forward that libraries need to be actively aware of the health and safety issues…

Metadata and cataloging practices

Metadata standards existing today range from very complex to very simple. Relative simplicity or complexity of metadata standards depends in large part on the resources…

Electronic databases: the Indian scenario

Computer usage has become commonplace and there has been an increasing number of local efforts in organising indigenous information for individual and institutional…

Bringing collections to life, digitising local studies and special collections: the COLLAGE project

The Corporation of London Library and Art Gallery Electronic (COLLAGE) identified the relative inaccessibility of their extensive visual collections – the prints, maps…

The effect of system response time on visual search in Web pages

Previous research has highlighted the importance of system response time (SRT) for Web usability. In the present study, this parameter was studied using a choice reaction…

Melody‐based retrieval of music

Nowadays, available music information is increasing rapidly from fast growing digital libraries and the Internet. How to effectively retrieve music data is a challenging…

Levels of information technology (IT) applications in Muslim world libraries

The utilisation of information technology (IT) has become an indicator of a country's wealth level. Countries, which fail to prepare for information technology and do not…

Privacy in libraries

The American Library Association views privacy as essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association. Many libraries have written policies…

E‐ffective Writing for E‐Learning Environments

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet

Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs

Information Management: Support Systems & Multimedia Technology

Multimedia Systems and Content‐based Image Retrieval

From Publishing to Knowledge Networks: Reinventing Online Knowledge Structures

Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions

The Digital Age and Local Studies

CIQM reports

Scopus testing

Red Earth Software releases Policy Patrol 3.0

New Gutenberg Bible Web site opens up the West’s earliest printed book

NHS England purchases online medical image database from BioMed Central

Calendar

Canada

USA

ITU expands partnership with Waseda University

Nielsen BookData appointed as DOI registration agency

Daeja reveals new vision for library document management

CAS and CSA agree to provide additional databases on STN International

Thomson ISI and NEC team up to index Web-based scholarship

Inspiring learning for all

Derwent World Patents Index First View on Dialog and STN

SCoRe update

YesVideo

FIZ Karlsruhe makes French patent documents available on STN International

NFER current awareness service

German Federal Ministry first to acquire Food Science and Technology Abstracts Database via the ISI Web of Knowledge

University of Derby integrates for e-resource gateway

UK

ISIHighlyCited.com expands coverage of influential scientists

National Archives tackles software obsolescence

Dialog enhances BIOSIS previews available through Dialog and Dialog DataStar services

Fitch Risk and BvD form alliance

ProQuest deploys COUNTER code of practice for online usage reporting

British Library launches Web site of northern English accents

Dialog launches DialogPRO NewsEdge

MLA disability guides and Web site feature

European Commission funds project to make Internet searches faster and easier

Mary Ann Liebert to launch new electronic journals site