The Electronic Library: Volume 9 Issue 2

Digital information organization and use

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Table of contents

The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to human‐computer interfaces

The interface between a user and the computer can often be vital in getting data in and out of it. The interface needs to allow for ease of input and ease of displaying data on…

ELNET — the electronic library database system

Shirley V. King

ELNET, the electronic library network, is one of a new generation of Japanese database systems which allows not only searching of index terms and free text terms from articles but…

Electronic mail as a tool for the information professional

Helge Clausen

A short presentation concerning the use of computer‐mediated‐communication (CMC) in information work is given together with the latest figures for use worldwide. Human aspects of…

Computer literacy and libraries

Cora S.H. Ovens

Computer literacy is defined. Reasons are given why computer literacy is required by librarians/information officers and some of the computerised library tasks are listed…

Global marketing of managed information access

Malcolm Smith

As the world's largest document supply centre, the British Library has re‐examined the needs of its customers in the 1990s. Operating in an international marketplace, we recognise…

SuperCard: scripting tool for Macintosh

Katherine R. Porter

SuperCard is a scripting tool for creating new Macintosh applications from scratch,for assembling new applications from other Macintosh applications, from HyperCard stacks, or…

CD‐ROM publishing systems

Howard Falk

Several systems, ranging in price from about $30 000 to over $200 000, are now available to aid database publishers and other organizations in disseminating information products…

News

Tech aide to Romania Sighisoara, Romania, could become a hub of information for doctors and fanners all over Romania. A state‐of‐the‐art computing laboratory is being built there…

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