VINE: Volume 18 Issue 2

Okapi: developing an intelligently interactive online catalogue

This article contains a description of the third phase of development of Okapi, the online catalogue developed at the Polytechnic of Central London. The first phase of development…

DOBIS in a medium sized academic library

Though it has been around for almost 10 years and has over 110 installations worldwide, DOBIS has not had a great impact on the UK market since it began to be marketed by IBM's…

CD‐ROM at King's College Library: use and evaluation of OCLC's Search CD450

Carolyn Pope, Adrian Machiraju

OCLC produces a number of products for CD‐ROM, derived variously from public domain databases in the US, such as ERIC, AGRICOLA and NTIS, and from subsets of its own massive…

BLAISE RECORDER: Communications software for information retrieval and record supply

Caroline Moore

Communications software has traditionally been used in the library environment for online searching to retrieve bibliographic and, more recently, numerical and textual…

Introducing automation in a college library: Data Trek at the College for the Distributive Trades

Sandy Norman

The College for the Distributive Trades library took a gamble in the Summer of 1987 and chose an automated library system that had never been tested in the UK although it was…