The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 3
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Factors and Issues in Creating an Internet Strategy
David RaittAn organization may make use of the services provided by the Internet in a variety of ways, for instance for electronic mail or public relations‐type activities. The rapid…
News
George F. Colony, Emily Nagle GreenA new British Government‐funded learning/teaching information service is to be created under the aegis of a consortium of the universities of Stirling, Napier, and South Bank…
Reality Check: Today's library automation marketplace
Pamela CibbarelliJudging from the press, conference exhibit halls, and titles of papers at library conferences everyone is automating with Web browsers, graphic interfaces, client/server…
System migration: Challenges for libraries in the Arabian Gulf region
Zahiruddin KhurshidWith the availability of some innovative second generation systems in the Arabian Gulf marketplace, several libraries in the region are considering system migration. However, they…
Challenges and opportunities in the automation of large public libraries: A Mexican experience
Alejandro Leal CuevaThis is a brief account of the successes and failures encountered over the last twelve years of working in library automation in a large university institution in the Northeast of…
Library automation at the interface of the World Wide Web
William ForresterThe emerging consensus seems to be that, in UK Higher Education anyway, automation of local library holdings is passing into history as a hot topic, and that the use of the Web to…
Focus news
The libraries of the University of Oxford and OCLC celebrated the automation of the post‐1920 catalogue of the Bodleian Library on 1 May 1998. The OCLC's Retrospective Conversion…
World Wide Web Community Networks and the Voluntary Sector
Emma Hallam, I.R. MurrayVoluntary sector information, presents particular challenges to information providers, in terms of networking across a diverse body of organisations. Opportunities offered by WWW…
The future of books in an electronic era
Philip BarkerBooks form an important part of human culture. They can be used to document, entertain, inform and instruct. Conventional approaches to book production have involved either manual…
Document file searching
Howard FalkWherever computer use becomes established, document files begin to accumulate, and the problem of finding the desired document becomes increasingly important as the number of…
New on the net
Not trainspotting this time, but library and book‐spotting from a clean and convenient site that offers a tidy set of resources for librarians, teachers and students.
The information economy
Australia's ‘Cultural Network’, an initiative of the Australian Government which is managed by the Australian Federal Department of Communications and the Arts, is a public access…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle