The Electronic Library: Volume 3 Issue 4

Digital information organization and use

Category:

Library and Information Science

Table of contents

News

Eastman Kodak is developing a system called KIMS (Kodak Image Management System) to electronically transmit information stored on microfilm throughout an organisation. The…

CALM: computer aided library management

Hilary Dyer

CALM, in the words of the supporting literature, “is a computer based library management system for use in book, film, slide, microfiche and other libraries”. Its…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

With the help of laser light techniques, photocopy machines have been adapted to computer use. In an ordinary photocopy unit, toner powder or liquid is attracted to a…

The Microcomputer in the Library: II. Hardware and operating systems

Peter Leggate, Hilary Dyer

The first article in the series (The Electronic Library, 3, 3, July, 1985 pp. 200–209) introduced the reader to microcomputer terminology and to the main…

Look — no paper! The library of tomorrow

D.I. Raitt

A scenario is given of a possible library of the future. Such a library might have shelves containing talking books, video cassettes, computer programs on floppy disks and…

Microcomputer application in a library for document ordering and delivery

J.M. Pistorius, J.W. Smith

The CSTI Document Delivery Service (DDS) of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was compelled to examine alternative systems for…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Ms Marie Bloechle