The Electronic Library: Volume 11 Issue 1

The customer is always … what?

David Raitt

Remember that old saying, the customer is always right? Or at least important? Forget it! Like chivalry and Shakespeare, it's dead. Would that I had never heard of A Very Well…

Teaching foreign literature through multimedia

Chandra Bhushan Sharma

This paper argues that simpler techniques explaining visual symbols (the referents) such as illustrations, annotation of texts with commentaries, explanations, word meanings, maps…

Hypertext and learning styles

David Ellis, Nigel Ford, Frances Wood

The project was designed to provide a framework for a comprehensive user evaluation of both software packages and hypertext environments. User evaluation constituted an integral…

Internet cruising with the Internet Hunt

Rick Gates

Heard of some interesting new resource on the Internet? Wondering how to get access? Feeling like the Internet is a confusing collection of tools and data? Archie, telnet, gopher…

Value‐added information services for small and medium sized enterprises

Kari Pieskä

The need for external information is steadily increasing in all kinds of organisations. Large companies have established special information service departments to handle the…

Is there a chance for a standardised user interface?

Liz Fletcher

The object of this paper is to discuss an issue that has been gradually gaining momentum in the world of CD‐ROM over the last couple of years — that of the chances of implementing…

Setting out

Rick Gates

When I was an undergraduate studying computer science in the early '80s I would often find myself at the public terminals in the campus computing center. At about 3am the green…

News

Prospects for multimedia computing have opened up now that both the main PC platforms offer support for digitised video at the operating system level. November saw Microsoft…

Thinx: text and graphics working together

T. Mac Cooper

Thinx is an innovative graphics‐oriented database package, running on IBM PCs and compatible computers. The package sells for $495. The vendor is Bell Atlantic Corporation, 9…