VINE: Volume 15 Issue 1
Table of contents
USE OF STATUS FOR HOUSEKEEPING AT TOE DHSS
Over the last two and a half years, the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) Library at Alexander Fleming House has been involved in a major automation project using…
THE DYNIX LIBRARY AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Those who read the computing press will be aware of the increasing attention being paid in recent months to the Pick operating system; though not a new operating system — it was…
LANCASHIRE GOES FOR GEAC IN A BIG WAY
With a rapid increase in the number of County Library authorities installing new online integrated systems or upgrading older networks, it is neither possible nor desirable for…
RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION; A LOOK AT SOME OF TOE SERVICES AVAILABLE
The section of VINE (pp 19–25)has as a common theme retrospective conversion. It is a topic which seems to have been giving rise to more and more interest of late as the…
FROM CARD TO MARC: AN INTELLIGENT SCANNING AND FORMAT RECOGNITION SERVICE
The preceding pages have concentrated on the approach to retrospective conversion which is based on the assumption that the library engaged in recon will wish to buy in externally…
THE EVOLUTION OF A RETROCONVERSION: An interim report on Edinburgh University Library's retrospective catalogue conversion
Marion C. RallsEdinburgh University Library is a classic example of distributed data, distributed processing, and distributed service, until 1982 all in manual form. It is dispersed, with the…
THE MANAGEMENT OF SHELF SPACE
PG PeacockA recurrent problem in library administration is that libraries do not expand evenly. In a small library (of, say, less than 100,000 volumes) the daily reports of staff…
MICROTEXT — ELECTRONIC BLACKBOARD, EXPERT SYSTEM OR TEACHING PACKAGE
MJ Snell, H DugguaInformation Technology and its use in reader education has been of continual interest to Stirling University Library. In 1978, under the auspices of a British Library project…