The Electronic Library: Volume 3 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
News
Cimtech, the British Centre for Information Media & Technology (formerly NRCd) has produced a guide to the range of optical storage devices coming on to the market. The…
MicroCheck: for catalog conversion and updating
Ann Allan, Michael KreychemMicroCheck is provided by the vendor, a company that sells books, library supplies and automated services to libraries, as part of a catalog conversion service that…
KWIC‐REF/1 for document storage and retrieval
Gerald CathcartKWIC‐REF/1 is a very stable and powerful storage, indexing and retrieval tool. It is particularly suited for general document storage and retrieval. The package allows…
Indix: index‐making for computer‐wise users
Allen B. Veanera, Susan P. KlementThe INDIX package performs some useful functions. It is ideal for any application requiring an exhaustive enumeration, along with location information, of the separate…
Hardware corner
Howard FalkThe Tandy 1000 sells for just $1199 with 128 thousand byte main memory and one disk drive. It can use disks intended for the IBM Personal Computer and will run most of the…
Book review
Barry Mahon, Peter Noerr, D. Raitt, Brian CollingeDid you know that Unesco produces twenty‐two computerised databases and that thirty‐nine information systems or services are available through FAO? So what, you might say…
Consultancy and library automation
Peter L. GillmanMany clients who seek the assistance of consultants in the field of library and information resources (LIR) begin with the assumption that automation is the desired end of…
Integrating and interfacing library systems
Richard W. BossAlmost all of the local library systems which were implemented in the past decade have been single‐function systems. The most widely installed have been circulation…
A method of making better KWOC indexes
P.J. ElvinThis article describes a method of making a KWOC index from article or document titles by the use of a computer program which allows the indexer to combine words in the…
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle