The Electronic Library: Volume 4 Issue 4

Eye to eye publishing — an article's voyage from an . . . idea to an ideal (almost)

To start at the end first. The ideal, of course, is to have the article published totally electronically from initial text entry at the keyboard of a concept in the mind's eye…

News

Francis L. Miksa, Professor from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas, begins a one year tenure as Visiting Distinguished Scholar in…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

In most microcomputer systems, the printing workhorse is a dot matrix unit, an inexpensive piece of equipment that rapidly churns out characters formed of clusters of tiny dots…

Making printer choices

Howard Falk

Hundreds of different printer models are offered to computer users. To take advantage of the rich selection, it is best to first choose the kind of printer that will fill your…

Public Domain Software on File

Lynn Jackson

Public Domain Software on File offers a great wealth of programs on subjects that range from biorhythm to physics. Many of these can be of great use to many people. However, the…

The microcomputer in the library: V. Circulation control and serials control

Peter Leggate, Hilary Dyer

The article discusses the use of microcomputers for the automation of the two remaining major library functions: circulation control and serials control. Both are concerned with…

Microcomputer database management systems for bibliographic data

Richard Pollard

Relatively little microcomputer software has been designed specifically for the storage and retrieval of bibliographic data. Information retrieval packages for mainframes and…