The Electronic Library: Volume 5 Issue 2

Digital information organization and use

Subject:

Table of contents

The electronic library manager's guide to using central computer facilities

Many library and information people already use their organisation's mainframe for the provision of library services. More often than not the services will, in fact, be a…

News

OCLC has agreed to acquire from Data Phase the Alis I and II software, and will provide future Hardwareand software maintenance for libraries using the systems. OCLC Local Systems…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

Optical scanning equipment is designed to enter information from printed and type‐written pages into a computer to organise and present information while eliminating the need for…

Framework II: Database plus

Dave Prochnow

Users with a need for an efficient database and for a variety of integrated functions will appreciate Framework II. Unlike most integrated packages, it does not suffer from the…

Soft Palette Fonts

Stephen E. James

Soft Palette Fonts contains several unique and distinctive character‐sets worthy of being included in font user's collections. However, there is also a number of undistinguished…

Electronic publishing and its impact on print publishing and other selected library materials: A review, proposal, and design for further research

Chih Wang

The work covers three major sections: introduction, literature review, and methodology. In the first section, the problem, objectives, and rationale of the proposed study are…

Local area networks for libraries — cast and recast

Dorothy S. Tao

In 1984 the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo created a local area network (Lan) for the Library Consortium of Health Institutions in Buffalo…

Interlibrary loan and document delivery using telefacsimile transmission: Part II. Telefacsimile project

Havelin Anand

The National Library of Canada (NLC) tested telefacsimile transmission of information in a pilot project with the Nova Scotia Provincial Library and the University of Alberta…

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