Library Hi Tech: Volume 9 Issue 3

Text files in libraries: Present foundations and future directions

John Price‐Wilkin

Libraries must actively support humanities text files, but we must remember that to focus exclusively on texts tied to specific systems is to put ourselves in opposition to the…

Enabling blind and visually impaired library users: Inmagic and adaptive technology

Leslie Rosen

A variety of enabling technologies such as synthetic speech, print enlargement on CRT screens, braille printers and displays, and communications technology has made library…

CorelDRAW, version 2.0: A review

Don Dennis, Mark Paster

CorelDRAW, version 2.0, is, basically, a drawing program that includes sophisticated handling of a variety of fonts; it is much more powerful and flexible than the Paintbrush…

Multipurpose technical services workstations: Access to NOTIS/OCLC/GTO with a single microcomputer

Marshall Breeding

Microcomputer and network systems have been implemented to support multi‐purpose technical services workstations at Vanderbilt University. Although the equipment and procedures…

How teachers teach, how students learn: “Doing” history and opening windows

Richard Hume Werking

For the history teacher, the next 10 to 15 years will contain important elements of continuity, as well as interesting new opportunities. Much of today's information landscape…

Voice technologies in libraries: A look into the future

Holley R. Lange, George Philip, Bradley C. Watson, John Kountz, Samuel T. Waters, George Doddington

A real potential exists for library use of voice technologies: as aids to the disabled or illiterate library user, as front‐ends for general library help systems, in online…

The latest and greatest: Upgrade or replace?: Part I: Hardware

Walt Crawford

How can you call yourself a serious computer user if you don't have a 33MHz 486 system with a 16″ 1024×768 Super VGA screen and 300MB disk drive? Run right out and get the new…