The Electronic Library: Volume 15 Issue 3
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Library automation vendors: Today's perspective
Pamela R. CibbarelliThis is a time of intense product development for almost all library automation vendors. Development efforts are focused primarily on four areas:
News
A report from Headland Business Information says that an increasing number of libraries are beginning to use the Internet to access business information sources. This probably…
Individually tailored tables of contents via BM‐SwetScan on the Boehringer Mannheim network
Marianne Gretz, Peter Stadler, Ernst Mernke, Martin ThomasFor some months the central library of Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, a research‐based pharmaceutical company in Germany, has been disseminating tables of contents in electronic form…
COPAC: New research library union catalogue
Shirley CousinsCOPAC is a new union OPAC which provides free access to the information contained in the main online catalogues of a number of important academic research library collections. At…
Blackwell's Electronic Journal Navigator
Ben JeapesThe Electronic Journal Navigator service from Blackwell's (EJN for short) was launched earlier this year. EJN is designed to simplify the whole process of acquiring and reading…
Dewey for Windows
Leonard Will, Sheena WillThe Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is the leading general classification scheme for libraries and it is now increasingly being used for electronic resources, both as…
Library automation: A year on
In our June issue last year we spoke to five librarians from around the world about the library automation systems in place in their libraries, and their thoughts and plans for…
Focus news
A Windows‐based serials management system developed to help librarians check in and manage their journal collections has been announced by Blackwell's.
Learn by wire: managing network access to learning materials
J. Eric DaviesThe development of information technology (IT) networks in the delivery of a range of material to learners in higher education is explored. Factors which influence the application…
Creating communication: blending two traditions of information at the UK Home Office
Peter GriffithsI recently had occasion to look back into the archives of Her Majesty's Treasury. A memorandum there notes that:
‘E’ for exposed? E‐mail and privacy issues
Pat Gannon‐LearyIn March 1996, American Libraries featured a piece about a librarian at the University of California/Irvine whose supervisor intercepted her e‐mail while she was absent on medical…
Buttoning down the content explosion
Bob DuffyThe ‘single biggest problem’ on the World Wide Web, Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen tells The Washington Post, is ‘information overload’. The implication: how is the user…
Flatbed colour scanners
Howard FalkMost pages of text or graphical materials in a library are black‐and‐white and most of the work that a scanner will do involves black‐and‐white images. Yet, it makes sense to buy…
New on the net
A Brief History of the Internet, Version 3.1. Written by many of the people responsible for the history of the Internet in the first place. Stresses four areas: technological…
The information society
Parliament reports on education and the Information Society. At its meeting in Strasbourg from 10–14 March, the European Parliament adopted three major reports on Community policy…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle