Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 22 Issue 2

The Universal Standard Bibliographic Code (USBC): its use for cleaning, merging and controlling large databases

F.H. Ayres, J.A.W. Huggill, E.J. Yannakoudakis

The history of the Universal Standard Bibliographic Code (USBC) is traced from its original concept as a machine generated control number to its present status as a means of…

ETHICS: an online public access catalogue at ETH‐Bibliothek, Zurich

Hannes Hug, Rudolf NÖThiger

For the past two years the ETH‐Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland has provided an online catalogue which possesses considerable user comfort. Access to the approximately 500,000…

Development of an automated acquisitions system at the University of Lancaster Library

Ken Harrison, David Summers

As a consequence of both limited funding and a desire to remain independent of any single supplier, the University of Lancaster Library is developing an integrated library package…

Selective dissemination of information using a low‐cost relational database at GEC's Engineering Research Centre

Kevin E. Green

A technique for providing a selective dissemination of information service and a printed current awareness bulletin using modestly priced equipment and software was investigated…

INFO: a Cardbox‐plus index to sources of computer and telecommunications information

Julia M. Johnson

This article describes the design, use and evolution over four years of INFO, a Cardbox‐plus based file containing bibliographic and other data relating to the computer and…

A training workshop in the use of JANET

Judith Palmer, Janice Yeadon

The packet switched network JANET (Joint Academic Network) which links the academic community of universities, polytechnics, government funded research establishments and the…