VINE: Volume 24 Issue 4

Z39.50 and SR: an overview

Z39.50 and (to a slightly lesser extent) SR, seem to be difficult terms to escape these days in the library world. They have of course been discussed in the library IT world for…

The current development of SR and European participation

Liv A Holm

The SR and Z39.50 standards are currently developing in parallel. The article discusses reasons for this and some of the problems experienced by those responsible for development…

The Z39.50/SR Pre‐Implementors Group (UK), or, this PIG did fly!

Frances Krivine

The UK Z39.50 Pre‐lmplementors Group was set up at the beginning of 1992, with the aim of encouraging UK involvement in the development of search and retrieve standards and…

The EUROPAGATE project

Séamus Ó Ciardhuáin

The EUROPAGATE project aims to construct a gateway system which will allow end users of library catalogue servers to access servers which are based on different protocols, and to…

The British Library and Z39.50

Neil Smith, Jan Ashton

The British Library is currently progressing several projects involving Z39.50 and SR standards. The Network OPAC trial service is being extended for a further year and the user…

Integrating Z39.50/SR into LIBERTAS

Janet Kinsella

SLS has been involved in the development of the SR/Z39.50 protocol via the UK Pre‐Implementors‘ Group. It is one of the first UK companies to offer a Z39.50 client. This article…

The DBV‐OSIII project: open communication between library and information retrieval systems

Bernd Luchner

DBV‐OSI II addresses the problem of access to multiple independent, non‐communicating union catalogues and databases in Germany. It seeks to improve the situation for end users by…

CROLIST: Croatian Library and Information System

Mirna Wilier

The CROLIST integrated library system was developed in‐house by the National and University Library in Zagreb to meet both its own needs and those of the wider library community…

The use of hypertext in libraries in the United Kingdom

Jonathan Furner‐Hines, Peter Willett

This article presents a summary of the major findings of a survey of the use of hypertext systems and the production of hypertext products in UK libraries. Not surprisingly…