The Electronic Library: Volume 13 Issue 5
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The digital library: dos, don'ts and developments
Colin SteeleThe term ‘digital library’ now seems to have become an encompassing term for what was once known as the ‘virtual’ or the ‘electronic’ library. In a stimulating essay on…
News
A market survey of libraries in the USA has confirmed that database site licensing is all the rage. No fewer than 28% of public and 39% of academic libraries have adopted it, and…
Application of CDROM technology in the multimedia library of La Villette Centre for Science and Industry
Homa MalekThe Centre for Science and Industry in Paris, which is one of the most attractive high‐tech science museums in Europe, hosts a unique multimedia library holding some 330 000…
Publishing your database on CDROM for profit: the FISHLIT and NISC experience
Margaret CramptonThe JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology Library at Rhodes University in Grahamstown has maintained the FISHLIT bibliographic database since 1985. In 1990 the decision was taken to…
Subject searching for information: what does it mean in today's Internet environment?
Carta BasiliThe information available through the Internet continues to proliferate. As it does so, it gains increasing importance and legitimacy throughout the scientific community…
Cataloguing Internet resources: the library approach
Vianne T. ShaMany approaches have been taken by different groups to collect, organise, archive, disseminate and preserve electronic resources on Internet. Some projects, such as WebCrawler…
Application of Micro‐CDS/ISIS and HEURISKO for the preparation of CDROMs
Gabriel Stergiou, Stefka KaloyanovaThis paper discusses the experience gained in the application of Micro‐CDS/ISIS as authoring software and HEURISKO as a user search interface for in‐house production of CDROMs at…
Issues in multiple use and network pricing for CDROMs
Jennifer RowleyIn order to achieve an appropriate level of revenue, CDROM publishers need to attempt to control access to their databases when they are used in a networked environment. This has…
Online imaging database serves film and television industries
Chuck HearstAs well as making products that come in little yellow boxes, Eastman Kodak is also a software developer. One of its software products is the Eastman Exchange, a database that lets…
Links in a tangled Web
Peter KrugerIt seemed like a good test of the Internet — and my knowledge of the World Wide Web. The task was to find out which films were showing in Cambridge over the following days. I…
The Information Society
The Australian Minister for Social Security, Mr Peter Baldwin, launched the Community Information Network (CIN) in July. The CIN is aimed at bridging the gap between the…
New on the Net
CAM (Computerised AIDS Ministries Network) is a programme of the Health and Welfare Ministries Program Department, General Board of Global Ministries, of The United Methodist…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle