VINE: Volume 16 Issue 1
Table of contents
IMPROVING OKAPI: TRANSACTION LOG ANALYSIS OF FAILED SEARCHES IN AN ONLINE CATALOGUE
Richard JonesThe experimental online catalogue Okapi has been running at one of the Polytechnic of Central London's (PCL) library sites for the last eighteen months. The work of this British…
LIBRARY AUTOMATION AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY; PRESENT AND FUTURE
Just under a year ago; Oxford University embarked upon the first; pilot phase of a highly ambitious; evolutionary plan towards extensive automation of the University's many…
ELECTRONIC MAIL: THE EVOLUTION TOWARDS STANDARDS
Bill TuckIntroduction Electronic mail, in the broadest sense; is not by any means a new technology. From the earliest days of telegraph; back in the 19th centuary; electronic media have…
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD TRANSFER USING ELECTRONIC MAIL: A NEW SERVICE FROM JOHN MEKZIES LIBRARY SERVICES LTD
As the number of libraries implementing acquisitions as part of their turnkey; integrated systems increases; so is there more demand and need for bibliographic data to be…
ELAN: A LOCAL AREA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
Paul BurtonELAN (Educational Local Area Network) is the local area network of IBM PC's installed in the Department of Information Science; Strathclyde Business School. Essentially; it has a…
TWO MICROCOMPUTER HOUSEKEEPING SYSTEMS: CALM AND OCELOT
The following two systems' accounts represent the first in what is hoped will be a series of some dozen product descriptions produced by the Library Technology Centre. Both offer…
ADMISSIONS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
John MorrowNewcastle University Library (NUL) has recently commissioned a microcomputer controlled admissions monitoring system; (ADMIS); from MARI Advanced Microelectronics Ltd.; Newcastle…