Online Review: Volume 3 Issue 3

News

Lockheed announces Newsearch, first database to be updated daily. Departing from the traditional monthly or bi‐monthly updating procedure, Lockheed announced that a new database…

Videotex news

For Viewdata read Videotex. Following the decision of the CCITT to adopt the term ‘Videotex’, as the generic term for Prestel‐like viewdata systems, Online Review's viewdata…

News retrieval services — growing but where are they headed?

Thomas H. Hogan

In the spring of 1979, Mead Data Central, which is best known for its legal information service (LEXIS), announced that it would soon make available an online retrieval service in…

University of Toronto Library Automation Systems

Harriet Velazquez

UTLAS has developed and is developing a set of automated services which are directed at meeting the following criteria: (i) provision of an easily‐learned system for the sharing…

The British Library Automated Information Service (BLAISE)

P.L. Holmes

A range of library and information retrieval services are provided by the British Library under the house name BLAISE — British Library Automated Information Services. The author…

Shared cataloging at OCLC

F.G. Kilgour

This paper describes the governance, organization, and activities of OCLC. In particular, it reports on the processes and products of OCLC's online shared cataloging system, the…

RLG's Research Libraries Information Network: bibliographic and information services

Jan Thomson, Jennifer Hartzell

The Research Libraries Group, Inc., a partnership of U.S. research institutions, operates and is expanding a computerized bibliographic and technical processing network called the…

The Washington Library Network Computer System

Richard Woods

With the development and growth of the Washington Library Network Computer System in recent years, it has emerged as an effective and efficient automated system to support…