Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 26 Issue 4

Use of the OSI Directory for accessing bibliographic information

Paul Barker

An OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Directory Service has recently been standardised in accord with the CCITT's X.500 recommendations. This OSI Directory (or X.500 Directory �…

Library automation in European Community countries: an overview

Gitte Larsen

More than 1,300 large integrated library systems are installed in the EC (European Community) member countries. This figure represents a growth rate of more than 525% over the…

Micro CDS/ISIS: a critical appraisal of its search interface

Pradeepa Perera

Micro CDS/ISIS is a software package distributed by Unesco to non‐profit making organisations, free of charge. It is suitable for handling non‐numeric, variable length, textual…

TINlib: why and how the Arts Council chose this integrated software system to manage its library

Stephen Chappell, Annie Thackeray

The library of the Arts Council of Great Britain holds material on arts management, cultural policy and the arts economy. It is available to staff, clients and researchers doing…

Producing a bibliographic database through scanning and OCR: the Online Contents Project in the Royal Library of the Netherlands

Mathilde Ongering, Michel Wesseling

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (national library of The Netherlands, KB), in a joint project with the Library of the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg (KUB) and Pica (Dutch…

Program: notes for contributors

Lucy A. Tedd, C.W.J. Wilson, R.C. Young

In a dummy article, which itself forms a model, the types of contribution (full‐length articles, short communications, news items, letters to the Editor) which are welcomed for…