The Electronic Library: Volume 4 Issue 3

Tasting wine and library software

Peter Jacsò

“Is it the wine or the subject of your next editorial which makes you look so meditative?” — I teased David Raitt on climbing back into the bus when returning from a wine tasting…

News

OCLC and Blackwell North America (B/NA) have announced a joint agreement that will enable OCLC member libraries to acquire hardcopy and microform (COM) products and related…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

It is quite common to find organizations in which several personal computers are in use. Most of the time, the people sitting at these computers will type into their keyboard and…

F.I.L.L.S. 2.0: Improved for interlibrary loans

Jo Anne Brooks

When the original version of F.I.L.L.S. was reviewed, it was recommended as a useful piece of software for small libraries that have a fair amount of interlibrary loan (ILL…

ILL Micro Enhancer: For OCLC interlibrary loans

Sue Stigleman

For users of the OCLC M300 workstation and the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Subsystem, the ILL Micro Enhancer provides a way to perform some tasks in an automatic batch‐processing mode…

The microcomputer in the library: IV. Cataloguing and acquisitions software

Peter Leggate, Hilary Dyer

The bibliographic record is the link between the software packages discussed in this article: cataloguing and acquisitions. Cataloguing software ranges from sophisticated online…

Video discs in libraries

Philip Barker

In the context of information storage and sharing new electronic technology has much to offer conventional library systems. A video disc can be a valuable storage component…

Automation of the CAS Document Delivery Service.: Use of a terminal on a Unix network to retrieve orders placed through online information vendors

M.C. Steensland, K.M. Soukup

This paper describes the automation of the retrieval of online orders for the CAS Document Delivery Service. By shifting from a process using stand‐alone terminal to a process…