VINE: Volume 21 Issue 2

Subject searching on OPACs: problems and help provision

Fran Slack

The need for subject access on OPACs has been widely recognised since their early development in the USA (Markey, 1984; Matthews, 1985b). Many OPACs in UK academic libraries…

DYNIX to LIBERTAS:: the management of change

Juliet Dye

In July, 1989, permission was given by the Department of Education and Science (DES) for the merger on 1 April, 1990, of Harrow College of Higher Education (HCHE) with the…

CD‐ROM networking on OPTI‐NET: the South Bank Polytechnic Library network

History of the project South Bank Polytechnic Library has been networking CD‐ROM databases since the summer of 1990. John Akeroyd, Head of Library Services at South Bank…

CEC and libraries: an assortment of projects & studies

Pat Manson

Though the Call for Proposals for projects under the libraries programme has only just been launched (July, 1991), the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) has for the…