The Electronic Library: Volume 5 Issue 4
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
First Pacific conference on new information technology
Bangkok, City of Angels, City of Sin, the Venice of the Orient, the place where after one night the world is supposedly your oyster. The huge variety of delicious…
The price of 2400 bps
Howard FalkIf you think a modem that can handle 2400 bits per second (bps) is an unnecessary luxury, it is time to take another look at what these units offer.
Mist+: Tools for tailoring communications applications
Gerald LundeenMist+ is an integrated software package that combines telecommunications, text processing and database management with a programming language that enables the user to…
BackComm: Communications on tap
Larry PrestonBackComm is designed to reside in the RAM memory of your computer and' is thus immediately available when needed. The package offers a variety of functions, and can be…
Fancy Fonts: Symbol library for Mac printing
Frank CatalanoIf you have a need to create borders, calendars, flow charts or graph grids, the Fancy Fonts package will he of interest to you. Fancy Fonts runs on Macintosh computers…
Microcomputers as innovation: policies for implementation in libraries and information services
Paul BurtonThe successful implementation of microcomputer‐based systems, despite their relatively low cost, still requires a careful quantitative and qualitative analysis of needs…
Library networking in North America in the 1980s. Part 1: The dreams; the realities
Charles R. HildrethThis article describes the emergence of the bibliographic utilities and the services they were able to offer to libraries in the face of the high costs and risks of…
The electronic school library
James E. HarringIn the vast literature now available on automation in libraries and information services of different kinds, relatively little has been written on the effects of…
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hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle