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Building a great vertical file collection means building a great resource for library bulletin board displays. Since bulletin boards need an endless supply of new ideas and materials, and your vertical files are constantly growing, why not combine them? Using your vertical file collection as a source for bulletin boards not only alerts users to what is inside those drawers, it is a great method for creating attractive seasonal displays and contests which you would not otherwise be able to feature. You need no special storage as materials are just returned to, or (if newly acquired) are made part of the vertical files when you take down the display. (Addresses for all the sources discussed in this article appear at the end.)

For almost a decade, some libraries have offered access to electronic bulletin boards (Bulletin Board System, or BBS) for a variety of community service purposes. Public libraries, in particular, have been at the forefront of this development. Patrick Dewey has documented the BBS development he pioneered at the North‐Pulaski public library and other activity in this field.

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study on the creation of an intelligent discussion board (IDB) that promotes active participation of all students, better threading, and re‐uses vast collections of discussions.

This paper presents an IDB that was modeled like an intelligent tutoring system with a similar set of data sources, coding schemes, and dialog patterns. The system was tested with two undergraduate courses and quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted to compare discussions on the IDB and the traditional discussion board.

The results of the case study and analysis of discussion board postings showed that the IDB contained fewer unrelated postings than their traditional counterparts.

The IDB was created to overcome the challenges like students paraphrasing each other, lurking, and lack of cohesion in the postings. They can serve as an assessment tool for discussion forums. The IDB must guide the discussion without controlling the free flow of ideas. Further research with larger numbers of students and also in multiple domains is necessary.

IDBs can be created with the existing resources and technologies and can serve as an assessment tool. Promoting better communication can lead to improved learning with asynchronous discussion boards.

This paper presents the first description of an IDB that can overcome challenges to traditional discussion boards and can also serve as a valuable assessment tool.

The Depository Library Program was established to provide government information to the general public. The libraries that are appointed to this program assume complete fiscal responsibility for providing this service. Recent policy decisions within the federal government evidence a trend toward a continuing decline in the availability of nonelectric government information. Depository libraries need to increase their budgets to maintain bibliographic, physical, and intellectual access to this information as costs rise.

Discusses the influence of technology on document supply. Traces the move from a paper‐biased to an electronic‐biased world using The Wall Street Journal to illustrate the variety of delivery options that technology has made possible. Examines two rapidly evolving document delivery phenomena – electronic bulletin boards and Internet. Presents a model of the information world in which the demise of some of the players is predicted and, as evidence concludes with a recent innovation, to archive and distribute physics papers, which transforms document supply.

Have you ever wished your IBM‐compatible PC ran faster? Not everyone can afford a new AT, but for a few dollars and an hour's effort, you can increase the speed of your PC from five to ten percent. The secret of this increase is the new NEC V20 chip.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the Illinois Digitization Institute's Basics and Beyond digitization training program and to describe how successful the project's different training approaches have been.

The training consists of one‐day workshops, web‐based courses, and web‐based courses plus a hands‐on workshop element. Courses are given at different price points and for different lengths of time. Surveys and quizzes measure how well the participants learn the material.

As surveys, quiz results, and other data from the courses show, the objective of the project is being accomplished: to present cultural heritage institutions with different types of digitization training to suit their time constraints, budgets, and education needs and produce a new set of professionals who will create successful and long‐lasting digitization projects.

The success of the project shows that participants respond well to different training approaches and these different approaches can be implemented to provide cultural heritage institutions with a wide range of digitization learning options suited to their needs. Such methods can also be used for other types of library and non‐library training.

This is the first time asynchronous but instructor‐led web‐based courses have been used for digitization training, and findings indicate that it has been successful. The outcomes of this training can be useful for institutions interested in how well participants respond to this unique style of training.

The inherent nature of the Internet affects financial reporting in the sense that information on a website is available to anyone, anywhere and at any time. Financial reporting on the Internet reduces the cost of financial reporting, makes instantaneous reporting a reality, adds breadth and depth to business reporting, allows analytical tools to be used on underlying business data and makes it easier to disseminate reports to any place in the world where there is a computer. A cursory exploration of financial reporting on the websites of South African companies reveals great variations in terms of the amount of content (e.g. summary financial statements vs detailed financial statements), the style of presentation (e.g. similar to paper‐based reports vs inclusion of multi‐media) and the manner in which companies incorporate navigation aids (e.g. hyperlinks, search boxes and others). The advantages of the Internet as a new mode of information dissemination are clear, but Internet financial reporting creates a number of challenges for companies and their auditors as well as for regulatory and standard‐setting organisations. This paper assesses Internet reporting in South Africa. It explores the manner in which financial and certain non‐financial information is presented on companies’ websites and determine whether reporting practices on the websites of South African companies differ fromthose of their international counterparts. The study revealed that although Internet usage in South Africa has expanded as a medium for presentation of financial information via companies’ websites, top South African companies use their websites as a bulletin board with limited real‐time financial information and note disclaimers.

Provides an outline of the main types of published information available, and found in libraries. Examines first a range of potentially useful types of information available within libraries and from other channels. Goes on to provide an account of the use of computers to search CD‐ROM, online and the Internet to find information.

In light of the sea change brought about by advancing technology in the way broker‐dealers communicate with clients, this article is a timely discussion of the current federal and self‐regulatory organization (SRO) requirements for a broker‐dealer's supervision of its employees' electronic business communications. Forms of communication, and the regulatory guidelines covering them, include e‐mail, off‐premises messages, group email, web site content, hyperlinks to other home pages, and chat rooms.