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New Year's resolutions for the information industry
This Editorial is going to be either a list of my Pet Hates or my Wish list depending on how you look at it. Being a Scorpio and almost totally and irredeemably (even irrevocably…
The Knowledge Warehouse: Legal and commercial issues
R WilliamsonThis paper describes the legal and commercial aspects of the Knowledge Warehouse, a national archive of the electronic form of knowledge works, based on a year long study…
Micro‐based relational database for a special library
Vasudha Satalkar, Pravin KunteA library is called a special library if it collects material on specific subjects or has special material or has special readers. The micro computer‐based dBASE II package is a…
Reference sources on CD‐ROM at Indiana University
Ann BristowThis paper describes the practical experience of a reference department in a large academic research library (Indiana University, Bloomington) using several different CD‐ROM…
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb024260. When citing the article, please…
ENABLE: Unique integrated package
Sherrilynne FullerENABLE is a very powerful package that provides word‐processing, spread‐sheet, telecommunications, graphics and database modules. The individual modules rival the performance of…
Notebook II: A text database with indexing and retrieval
Carl E. SnowNotebook II is a well designed text database with capabilities that go beyond the usual limitations of standard database programs. Outstanding features include built‐in editors…
News
The Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Springs, Maryland has added a fourth ‘R’ to the traditional school curriculum of reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic: retrieval, as in…
Direct entry without keyboarding
Howard FalkWouldn't it be nice to put the title, author, publisher and other items of bibliographic information from a new acquisition into a computer without having to keyboard every…
Procurement of a talking terminal for partially sighted operators
H.R. NicksonThis article describes the installation of a workstation for a partially‐sighted programmer that can magnify the text on the computer screen and can ‘read’ the text as well as…
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- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle