The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 4

After the Tsunami: The Information Profession in the post‐Internet world

Ronald G. Dunn

This guest editorial is based on a presentation delivered by Ron Dunn at the National Online Meeting in New York on May 13, 1998. At the time, Ron was President of the Information…

News

The electronic library scene The Internet Library of Early Journals has now made available substantial runs of some of the most culturally significant British journals of the…

A Distributed National Electronic Resource? MODELS workshop 6 report, 5–6 February 1998, Bath

Rosemary Russell, Lorcan Dempsey

A Distributed National Electronic Resource? was the sixth MODELS workshop and one of the largest to date. Around 50 invited participants gathered at the Stakis Hotel in Bath on…

Documenting digital images: Textual meta‐data at the Blake Archive

Matthew Kirschenbaum

As libraries continue to acquire and develop collections based in digital media, they face a corresponding need to document the electronic data comprising such collections. By…

The Avalon Project

The 19th National Online Meeting in New York, held from 12–14 May this year, saw the delivery of a range of interesting papers on the theme of virtual collections, of which one…

Managing change to enhance technological orientation and knowledge among library staff

Eric A. Cooper

Librarians are constantly urged to gain technological knowledge or jeopardize their professional importance. This necessitates change for many librarians and often produces…

CLEAR design: Developing an Electronic Copyright Management System for Project ACORN

Elizabeth Gadd, Richard Goodman, Adrienne Muir

Outlines the copyright clearance difficulties faced by librarians in the development of the Electronic Library and states the need for an electronic copyright management system…

Group Communications

Howard Falk

The idea that computer‐based activities and facilities might be usefully shared arises quite naturally once an organization has many computers in operation. The first step is to…

New on the net

Drawing on the expertise of a panel of 1500 film luminaries, the American Film Institute has announced its list of the 100 greatest American films. The AFI gives a brief synopsis…