The Electronic Library: Volume 7 Issue 3

Singing the CD‐ROM installation blues

Peter Jacsó

Happy were the days B.C.D.S. (Before Compact Disc Standards)! This sounds retrograde, renegade, heretic, pagan, you name it. But it is the conclusion I have come to after…

A union catalogue on CD‐ROM for the scientific community in Milan

Gian Carlo Dalto

In this article the method of construction of the union catalogue system on CD‐ROM for scientific libraries in Milan is described. The characteristics of the system and…

FLAN: virtual inter‐linking using floppy disks as a local area network

Susanna Giaccai

The paper discusses how to share functions such as cataloguing and interlibrary loan between libraries and other information centres by setting up a virtual network of…

Toward contextual sensitivity: approaches to end user instruction in the USA

Mary M. Huston

The evolution of online instruction in the United States has been characterized by increasing sensitivity to the experiential contexts of end users. Two conceptual…

The Finnish Delphi study: forecasting the extent of information technology use in libraries in 1996 and 2010

Sinnikka Koskiala, Anni Huhtanen

The Finnish Council for Scientific Information and Research Libraries funded a Delphi study to predict the extent of use of information technology in the years 1996 and…

PC Corner

Jim Roberts

I only have one general question this month, but in order to do it justice I will have to use most of the column! For the rest of it I shall talk a bit more about interfaces.

Image processing and page presentation: part 3

A.E. Cawkell

The series continues with a brief review of new conventional hand‐held, and colour scanners, also ‘Frame Grabbers’ for capturing television images. A section about…

News

British government approves data network After months of preparation by HM Treasury's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA), the first phase of the…