The Electronic Library: Volume 8 Issue 2

Digital information organization and use

Category:

Library and Information Science

Table of contents

The importance of ISO 9660

Amy Kovarick

ISO 9660 is the standard CD‐ROM file format which allows the information on a CD‐ROM to be used on many different computers. Although some industry estimates suggest that…

Future prospects for network‐based multimedia information retrieval

Stephen Bulick

This paper asks the reader to consider future information retrieval services that return multimedia documents containing any combination of text, graphics, still raster…

The Electronic Bookmobile

Catherine Suyak Alloway

Bookmobiles have been an important part of public library service for over a century. Traditionally they have delivered recreational reading material, but new technologies…

Learning the hard way: a public library's experience with CD‐ROM

Sten Wiksten

At the library in Åkersberga, 35 km north of Stockholm, a project is underway to acquaint the local people with recent developments in information technology. Åkersberga…

Disk caches

Jim Roberts

I had planned to write about the new international document standards ODA (Office Document Architecture) and SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) since I have been…

Telecommunications Tutorial ‐ Part 2

A.E. Cawkell

As explained in Part 1, digitisation brings with it numerous benefits although digitised speech of good quality requires a bit rate of 64 kbps, which implies that a…

Macintosh Potentials

Erwin K. Welsch

In the first column of this series, I discussed the basics of using a Macintosh. In this one I will continue the discussion of printing, relate it to the new operating…

Steering a course with Magellan

Tom Wilson

Lotus Magellan. Three 5.25 inch or two 3.5 inch disks. Loose‐leaf manual and two pamphlets. Available from Lotus Development, Lotus Park, The Causeway, Staines TW18 3AG…

SST: secure, error‐free file transfer package

Steven J. Bell

The SST (Super Simple Transfer) package simplifies PC file transfers by automating modern setup and using menus to conduct transfers. Error‐free transmission and data…

Reunion: protean communications

Justine Roberts

The Reunion communications package is designed to take many different forms. A versatile script language and keyboard mapping capabilities allow users to customise the…

Laser printers: part 2

Howard Falk

In the summary table on laser printers, the price shown is the manufacturer's list price. Competition among vendors of laser printers is now quite fierce and most of these…

News

Support sought for changes to copyright law EIIA members have been asked to support a change in the copyright laws to permit some ‘fair use’ copying of software. A…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Ms Marie Bloechle