VINE: Volume 25 Issue 2

The World‐Wide Web in libraries: an overview

The development of the World‐Wide Web has caught the imagination not only of professional computer users, but also of large sections of the general public: news and feature items…

Keeping the threads together: use of the World‐Wide Web at the University of Exeter Library

Martin Myhill, Roy Davies, David Salter, Ian Tilsed

The principal organisational issues relating to the creation, validation and maintenance of the University of Exeter's Web site are discussed from the viewpoint of the University…

The Scholar's Workstation Project

David Cairns, Bruce Royan

The product of the Scholar's Workstation Project is a single Web site that provides, through a consistent interface, a complete operating environment for the common tasks…

The University of Oslo's Informatics Library and the World‐Wide Web

Knut Hegna

It is common for libraries to develop Web sites for the provision of access to resources stored on remote systems: the priority of the University of Oslo's Informatics Library, in…

Developing a World‐Wide Web OPAC

John Arfield, Jeff Brown, Jim Burton, Richard Wallis

The development of networked access to academic library catalogue records has been conspicuously slow compared with that of campus‐wide information systems in general. In…

The World‐Wide Web and Z39.50: which way for libraries?

Finbarr Joy, Robin Murray

The function of the World‐Wide Web, like that of Z39.50, is to offer access to networked information; and the client/server architectures of the two systems might appear similar…

Dynix's NetPublisher: Web publishing for libraries

Peter Behrend

There are various types of material that a library may wish to publish on the Web: promotional literature, catalogues of audiovisual collections, and community information systems…

World‐Wide Web searching tools: an evaluation

Ian R Winship

Many tools exist to provide subject access to information stored on the Web. These include both automatic search engines such as ‘crawler’ programs and manually‐created subject…

Cataloguing in the electronic age: future librarians' cataloguing of Internet resources

John Kirriemuir, Nigel Ford

The authors describe how an existing course in cataloguing for postgraduate students of librarianship at the University of Sheffield's Department of Information Studies was…