The Electronic Library: Volume 18 Issue 1

The role of a digital librarian in the management of digital information systems (DIS)

Stresses that the multimedia nature of the next generation of digital libraries requires the digital librarians (DL) to be essentially a type of specialist librarian who has to…

Scholarly monographs: why would I want to publish electronically?

Looks at the implications of electronic scholarly monograph publishing for authors, publishers and readers. It stems from original research undertaken by the authors in 1998 as…

Planning the electronic library – suggested guidelines for the Arabian Gulf region

Describes the various technological and social requirements for planning the electronic library. These requirements include the LAN and the client‐server architecture, facilities…

Developing the hybrid library: progress to date in the National Library of Scotland

The key roles of national libraries in terms of acquisition, retention, preservation and providing access to materials are considered, first of all in terms of printed materials…

Researching and developing virtual Scotland – a perspective from the Centre for Digital Library Research

Scotland, with its Parliament recently re‐established after 300 years, is likely to see the development of a networked service to make electronic information, learning and…

NACO versus ISAN: prospects for name authority control

A traditional model of name authority control (the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO)) and the International Standard Author Number (ISAN), which was proposed in a previous…

The Information Systems Development Life Cycle: A First Course in Information Systems

Exploiting the Internet as an Information Resource in Schools

Finding Images Online: Online User’s Guide to Image Searching in Cyberspace

Information Technology in Public Libraries

The Library and Information Organizations and Networks Handbook