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The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to Image and Video Capture and Display
There are a number of reasons why you might want to install equipment to capture and display images. It could be to reduce the long‐term costs of storing paper documents and to…
The power of imaging
Peter HaapaniemiImaging is rapidly gaining usage across businesses and institutions because of its special technology which allows huge numbers of words, pictures and other illustrations to be…
Politics of the library of the future
Mara NielsWe sometimes view politics as a dirty business that is nevertheless necessary in order to accomplish major initiatives like implementing new technology in the library. We wish…
National libraries project on CD‐ROM
Robert SmithJanuary 1990 saw the beginnings of a joint initiative by seven European national libraries founded in part on the goodwill that existed between the British Library and the…
InfoStation: A multimedia access system for library automation
Newton S. LeeThis paper describes the cutting‐edge hardware and software for multimedia information storage and access. We will focus on the NeXT computer as the innovative hardware platform…
PC Corner
Jim RobertsThe column this month is about CONFIG.SYS, what goes in it and how to control it. It is also about DESQview and Windows 3.0. If this column reads like a computer‐based adventure…
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb024357. When citing the article, please…
CD‐ROM drive units for personal computers
Howard FalkCD‐ROM (Compact Disk Read‐Only Memory) drive units allow data stored on optical discs to be read into a computer. The discs are essentially the same as the compact discs used in…
Telecommunications Tutorial: Current political issues
A.E. CawkellWell over a hundred years ago it was said that: “Libraries are conducted for the many, not for the few... it is of paramount importance that the means of general information…
Macintosh Potentials
Erwin K. WelschIn an announcement, Apple conceded that System 7.0, whose delay was suggested as likely in the previous column, would not appear until sometime during the first half of 1991. The…
News
Chemical warfare: ACS fires back at Dialog The American Chemical Society (ACS) has finally answered Dialog's $150 mil‐lion lawsuit against it with a countersuit and accusations…
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- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle