VINE: Volume 25 Issue 1

Public library networking: an overview

It is usual in the VINE overview to commence with some kind of definition of the theme being covered. This time however the title appears straightforward (none of those obscure…

The public library and the Information Superhighway

Lorcan Dempsey

The Information Superhighway is at this stage a vision, and not a reality; conduit, content and connectedness are discussed as the prerequisites for a high speed network, which is…

Networking in public libraries: collaborative developments at LASER

Peter Smith

LASER is leading a number of different projects involving various forms of networking between public libraries. All the current collaborative projects are summarised, but the main…

CLIP update

Chris Batt

The Croydon Libraries Internet Project is providing customers with access to the Internet, firstly by using Internet resources to answer reference enquiries and secondly by…

Pointing to the future: how one community's experience can benefit the country

Geoff Andrew

The IT POINT project based at Chelmsley Wood Library is seeking to assess the use and the usefulness of a range of IT and networked services in a deprived outer‐city environment…

BIBLIOFIL and the World Wide Web: IT in public libraries in Norway

Lill Bjørvik, Ola Thori Kogstad

The BIBLIOFIL library management system is widely used by public libraries throughout Norway. The supplier, Bibliotek‐Systemer, recognised the importance of making public library…

The Cable Book and its Knot: an Internet public library

Mikael Book

This unusually named library was the world's first public library to mount information on a World Wide Web server. The article describes how this joint project came about…

Pilot trial of Blackwell's UnCover database

Penny Dade

In response to the perceived need for an extra quick document delivery service to the University of Hertfordshire's research and academic staff, Library and Media Services began…