The Electronic Library: Volume 8 Issue 5

Digital information organization and use

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Table 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 library and…

Laptop CD‐ROM drives

David Raitt

There 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 TEL does…

Developing your own CD‐ROM

Svante Hallgren

For 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 author lists…

New media, new messages: innovation through adoption of hypertext and hypermedia technologies

Mary M. Huston

We 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 in…

Managing technological change in libraries and information services

Jane E. Klobas

This paper examines factors to be considered in the management of technological change in libraries and information services. The factors include the organisational climate or…

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 Roberts

A number of interesting questions have come in recently. Please keep them coming in.

Datafax 4.0: simple text storage and retrieval

Gerald Lundeen

Datafax 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. The…

Boxes and boards for sharing resources

Howard Falk

Computer 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 other…

Telecommunications Tutorial ‐ Part 5

A.E. Cawkell

This tutorial will cover the relationship between operating systems, inter‐computer communications, and file transfers.

Macintosh Potentials

Erwin K. Welsch

In 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 Expo in…

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 Access…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle