The Electronic Library: Volume 2 Issue 3

Digital information organization and use

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Table of contents

News

To meet the growing need for computer law information, West Publishing Company has announced two new books by Professor Steven L. Mandell, ‘Computers, Data Processing, and the…

Eighth Intermarc Software Subgroup Meeting

The Intermarc Software Subgroup held its 8th meeting at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy from 14–16 March, 1984. This group was originally formed in 1979 as a…

Quick Search Librarian Fast but frustrating

The Quick Search Librarian is an inexpensive, specialized file manager for capturing, sorting and searching journal literature and other serials materials. Although it searches a…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

Micro/personal computer Fujitsu's Micro 16s system is designed around an 8‐bit Z‐80 processor chip and an 8086 16‐bit chip. The 8‐bit chip allows the system to run older programs…

Micro‐automation — the problems of selection

C.J. Armstrong

Two major issues to face many libraries today stem directly from the increased processing power and the consequential increased availability of the microcomputer. As the public…

Merging catalog entries from various countries into an online union catalog

Frederick G. Kilgour

Introduction This paper will examine the possibility of constructing an online international union catalog from machine readable entries originating in different countries…

The ‘bibliographic’ control of microcomputer software

Mark E. Rorvig

There are over 40,000 microcomputer software packages available in the market‐place today. This article explores some normative relationships between librarianship and computer…

Microcomputers in special libraries: a means to an end?

Peter L. Gillman

The wide availability of relatively cheap computing power has led many librarians and information officers to expect that the procurement of a microcomputer and database software…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle