The Electronic Library: Volume 8 Issue 5
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to Technology Watching
Scouring the world's scientific and technical press I come across all kinds of interesting things which I feel could and/or should be potentially used in electronic…
Laptop CD‐ROM drives
David RaittThere are a growing number of laptop or portable CD‐ROM drives, some of them quite attractive to look at, and all as different in their own way as they are similar. While…
Developing your own CD‐ROM
Svante HallgrenFor many databases, distribution on CD‐ROM is now a feasible proposition. In this introduction to the process of creating a CD‐ROM for the prospective developer, the…
New media, new messages: innovation through adoption of hypertext and hypermedia technologies
Mary M. HustonWe live in an age in which decisions made about information access today will have a profound impact on the libraries and librarians of tomorrow. Emerging new developments…
Managing technological change in libraries and information services
Jane E. KlobasThis paper examines factors to be considered in the management of technological change in libraries and information services. The factors include the organisational…
Marketing electronic information in the 1990s
Stephen E. Arnold‘Marketing information’ is one of the litanies of electronic publishing in the 1990s. But who really knows how to market electronic information?
PC Corner
Jim RobertsA number of interesting questions have come in recently. Please keep them coming in.
Datafax 4.0: simple text storage and retrieval
Gerald LundeenDatafax 4.0 is a relatively simple text storage and retrieval package with limited functionality. Datafax 4.0 is for use with IBM/PCs, ATs, PS/2s and compatible computers…
Boxes and boards for sharing resources
Howard FalkComputer users usually type at their own personal computer keyboards and look at their own display screens but, on occasion, every user needs to access a printer, or some…
Telecommunications Tutorial ‐ Part 5
A.E. CawkellThis tutorial will cover the relationship between operating systems, inter‐computer communications, and file transfers.
Macintosh Potentials
Erwin K. WelschIn a sense Macintosh developments, as of late August when this is being written, are in a static mode that reflects, perhaps, the supposed indolence of summer. MacWorld…
News
BRS Five databases on BRS are now updated weekly: Medline, the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Search and Social SciSearch, and Information…
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle