The Electronic Library: Volume 9 Issue 4/5
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Message from the Chairman of the South African Online User Group
The South African Online User Group was founded in April 1979, with twenty members. In December that year the International Online Information Meeting was in its third year. From…
Information developments and trends in Europe and elsewhere
David RaittThere has been some recent discussion that online, as we know it, is now old‐fashioned and out‐dated—being superseded by CD‐ROM and other technologies. The paper examines the…
The electronic workstation: challenges for the information specialist
Pieter A. van BrakelThe concept of the electronic workstation/or the information specialist and/or client or user of information services has been made possible by various recent developments in…
Evaluation of hypertext software to create a public browsing system in a museum
Anne MorrallThis study evaluated four different packages containing the hypertext facility for use in a browsing system at a museum. The browsing system envisaged would be on a medical or…
The highway to establishing a commercial information retrieval system
Margaret LodderThe CSIR's Division of Information Services has developed a sophisticated information access and retrieval system from which it will be able to provide various of its range of…
The special library as a competitive intelligence centre
Olga SvobodaThe strategic value of competitive information to a corporation has received increased attention in management, business practice and information literature. This paper describes…
CD‐ROM — a viable alternative to online searching for academic libraries?
Catherine E. DubbeldTo test this proposition a comparison was made between online and CD‐ROM costs in several heavily used databases. Among other factors considered were funding methods, staff…
Online help to end‐users in a networked environment
Paul MeyerMost computer users are familiar with the idea of the online tutorial and online help functions, as these apply to database, spreadsheet and wordprocessing programs. Such programs…
Online searching of patents databases: a Southern African perspective
David G. GilsonTypical uses of patent information in the South African context are explained briefly, particularly novelty, infringement, family and equivalent searches. Certain computerised…
Personal ‘connection machines’
Angelo RoussosDevelopment of vast information databases goes on unabated in the USA. In future, the emphasis will be the formation of intelligent gateways to integrated online services and…
Conversion and transfer of downloaded records to personal databases
Rolf TönsingThis paper examines the problem many researchers experience of having to spend much time rekeying records obtained from external online and CD‐ROM databases into their own…
Non‐laser printers
Howard FalkJust a few years ago, the laser printer was a new and rather expensive gadget with a promising but unknown future. Today, many laser printers sell on the street for less than…
News
Inside information about companies is in demand. Out of some 400 CD‐ROMs related to business, for instance, over a third deal with company data (141 titles). Even so, when…
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle