Library Hi Tech: Volume 8 Issue 3

Search trees for subject searching in online catalogs

Karen Markey Drabenstott, Diane Vizine‐Goetz

Search trees presented in this article control system responses and determine appropriate subject searching approaches to user queries. Users do not explicitly choose a particular…

An Electronic Library Communications Format: A Definition and Development Proposal for MARC III

Edwin Brownrigg, Brett Butler

The Memex Research Institute has proposed a research project to describe in machine‐readable form all the information needed to create electronic “books” in a standard…

Content‐enriched access to electronic information: Summaries of Selected Research

Richard Van Orden

With the continuing increases in computer processing and storage capabilities, the barriers to and benefits of electronic access to more information content are becoming serious…

An experiment in enhancing catalog records at Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas J. Michalak

Historically, libraries have always included special features in their catalogs to meet local needs. This trend has changed over the years as cataloging standards have been…

Retrieval effectiveness of enhanced bibliographic records

Martin Dillon, Patrick Wenzel

OCLC recently completed a research project to measure the contribution to retrieval effectiveness of adding abstracts and tables of contents to bibliographic records. The most…

Computer Room Water Protection

Bennett J. Price

Water can enter computer rooms from numerous sources: air conditioners; roof, floor, and wall leaks; backed‐up floor drains; fire sprinklers; and so on. While insulated power and…

DataLib: Information resource management system

Barbara K. Kunkel, Lerinda Luecking Frost, MJ Stivers

DataLib is a comprehensive, interactive information resource management system. Utilizing state‐of‐the‐art database management techniques, it supports the full set of automated…

THE Randtriever: Its use at the Ohio State University

Barbara VanBrimmer, Elizabeth Sawyers

Of all first generation automated storage and retrieval (AS/R) systems installed in libraries in the United States, the most complex and ambitious installation was at the Health…

The Randtriever at Erasmus University, Rotterdam—1969–1990: Two decades of change in mechanical books storage

Leen Meyboom

In April 1969, Remington Rand began installing its automated storage and retrieval system‐the Randtriever—at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The original system never worked…

Automated storage and retrieval (AS/R) Systems of the past: Why did they fail?

John Kountz

Since their public debuts in the 1960s, thousands of automated storage and retrieval (AS/R) systems have been installed in industrial settings across the United States and Western…

Beyond courier: Good writing deserves good typography

Walt Crawford

Words on paper: that's the end result of most personal computing, at least in library related fields. The author revisits a topic covered extensively in his earlier articles, but…