The Electronic Library: Volume 5 Issue 5

Digital information organization and use

Subject:

Table of contents

News

A group of internationally respected publishers has produced thirteen dictionaries (English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Chinese languages) on compact…

IBM Personal System/2

Howard Falk

Virtually every computer user is aware of the impact that the IBM/PC had in opening the possibilities for use of computers in virtually every organisation and by millions of…

Total Recall

Harald Schütz

Total Recall is a program designed to retrieve information from text files. It is available from Packet Press, Suite 110, 14704 Seneca Castle Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA…

ZyIndex

Paul F. Burton

As more and more organisations produce documents of various types by electronic means using word‐processors, databases and spreadsheets, they need a way to retrieve those…

StarIndex: reference aids for word‐processing files

April Bohannan

StarIndex is an acceptable indexing package for most jobs. It does what it promises and the run time is not outrageous. It is included along with most versions of Wordstar that…

Library networking in North America in the 1980s Part 2: The response of bibliographic utilities to local, integrated systems

Charles R. Hildreth

Part I (in the previous issue of TEL) discussed how the changing library network environment and the trend towards decentralization and local, integrated systems was having an…

Optical disc technology for records management: A user perspective

Avi Bender

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission is completing a pilot project which demonstrates a unique application of Worm‐based optical disc technology for the storage and…

Technostress in libraries: causes, effects and solutions

Julie Bichteler

Accompanying the successful and exciting high tech revolution in libraries has been the occurence of a number of physical, psychological and social problems among staff and…

Translating speech by computer

David Raitt

People who cannot speak a word of each other's language will soon be able to talk over the phone using a sytem developed by British Telecom's Research Laboratories. The world's…

National Conference on Automation of Information Services: 17–21 September 1987, Bourgas, Bulgaria

David Raitt

The Bulgarian national information policy is directed towards the practical realisation of two aims: the development of an efficient information infrastructure satisfying the…

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