The Electronic Library: Volume 3 Issue 2

News

Cimtech, the British Centre for Information Media & Technology (formerly NRCd) has produced a guide to the range of optical storage devices coming on to the market. The report is…

MicroCheck: for catalog conversion and updating

Ann Allan, Michael Kreychem

MicroCheck is provided by the vendor, a company that sells books, library supplies and automated services to libraries, as part of a catalog conversion service that company…

KWIC‐REF/1 for document storage and retrieval

Gerald Cathcart

KWIC‐REF/1 is a very stable and powerful storage, indexing and retrieval tool. It is particularly suited for general document storage and retrieval. The package allows full text…

Indix: index‐making for computer‐wise users

Allen B. Veanera, Susan P. Klement

The INDIX package performs some useful functions. It is ideal for any application requiring an exhaustive enumeration, along with location information, of the separate words in a…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

The Tandy 1000 sells for just $1199 with 128 thousand byte main memory and one disk drive. It can use disks intended for the IBM Personal Computer and will run most of the…

Book review

Barry Mahon, Peter Noerr, D. Raitt, Brian Collinge

Did you know that Unesco produces twenty‐two computerised databases and that thirty‐nine information systems or services are available through FAO? So what, you might say, but it…

Consultancy and library automation

Peter L. Gillman

Many clients who seek the assistance of consultants in the field of library and information resources (LIR) begin with the assumption that automation is the desired end of the…

Integrating and interfacing library systems

Richard W. Boss

Almost all of the local library systems which were implemented in the past decade have been single‐function systems. The most widely installed have been circulation control…

A method of making better KWOC indexes

P.J. Elvin

This article describes a method of making a KWOC index from article or document titles by the use of a computer program which allows the indexer to combine words in the title in…