The Electronic Library: Volume 5 Issue 6
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
Computer‐based communications
Three major forms of communication are publishing papers, books and the like; participating in conferences; and informal, usually verbal, contacts. Electronic or…
News
The British Library Document Supply Centre has begun a two‐year trial of document delivery from compact disc (CD‐ROM). The trial will assess the feasibility of journal…
Hard disks over 100 MB
Howard FalkLarge computer‐based files are a natural result of the automation of libraries and information services. For example, a catalogue that contains 100 thousand records, each…
PFS: Professional File: Easy file management
Stephen P. HarterPFS: Professional File is a well‐designed file management package that is easy to use, comes with excellent documentation, and is only moderately expensive.
Power Base: File‐linking capabilities
Bob McFarlandPowerBase is an impressive product that should provide the database capabilities that most business organisations require. It is easy for novices to set up and use…
Paperbase De Luxe
ominik WujastykdPaperbase de Luxe is a simple flat‐file database program designed specifically for the storing and manipulating of bibliographical data of the sort used by scientists and…
Worms in the field
David AbbottComputer and Aerospace Components Ltd (CACL) markets the ‘Intelligent Archive’ family of products based around a Worm optical disc drive, comprising (besides the Worm) an…
The Utlas approach to vernacular processing
Jack CainThe author describes the experience of adapting existing software to multi‐script two byte per character processing. The software concerned supports shared cataloguing by…
An integrated online library system as a node in a local area network: The Mitre experience
Mary Coyle KidwellIn the Spring of 1985, the library at the Mitre Corporation in Washington, DC, installed OCLC's LS/2000 integrated library system as a turnkey system on a Data General…
Building a bibliographic network for Singapore
Bruce RoyanThe Singapore Integrated Library Automation Service provides a national bibliographic source, a shared library network, a cooperative online shared cataloguing facility…
The use of information technology by information services: the Aslib information technology survey 1987
Gwenda SippingsThe Information Resources Centre at Aslib, The Association for Information Management, recently carried out a survey of the use of information technology within the…
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hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle