Library Hi Tech: Volume 10 Issue 4

OASIS: A front‐end for prototyping catalog enhancements

Michael K. Buckland, Mark H. Butler, Barbara A. Norgard, Christian Plaunt

There has been a massive investment in the installation of online catalogs: in selection, in the supporting infrastructure of terminals and networks, in catalog record conversion…

The library of tomorrow: A universal window serving independent problem solvers

W. David Penniman

Penniman describes a mission and vision for the library of the twenty‐first century that go far beyond document delivery. He proposes that the real mission of the library is to…

The university context and the research library

Billy E. Frye

In a general way it is obvious that the developmental cycles of libraries reflect those of their parent institutions, the universities. Thus, libraries, like universities, have…

Tomorrow's libraries: more than a modular telephone jack, less than a complete revolution— Perspectives of a provocateur

John Kountz

The annual operating costs for traditional libraries can be shown to be greater than the cost to distributing a portable computer and related sources of electronic information to…

The database paradox: Unlimited information and the false blessing of “objectivity”

Peter Suber

It is possible that the universe of available information will become so large that some teachers might actually control their students' command of it the way the mapmaker…

Arabic script on RLIN

Joan M. Aliprand

Arabic script is the most recent addition to the scripts available on the Research libraries Information Network (RLIN). Bibliographic control and retrieval using the authentic…

User driven: The evolution of the Ei reference desk

John J. Regazzi

Growth in the primary engineering literature has been accompanied by a boom in electronic secondary information‐retrieval products and services which can access information that…

Talking that talk: Notes on personal computing terminology

Walt Crawford

You can buy and use a personal computer without understanding the language—but it's a little hard to read these articles, and a lot harder to understand the Held thoroughly. The…

P. Nulty, Private Eye, and the case of the purloined publisher (A gumshoe festschrift)

William Uricchio

Velda stared at the airport carousel as the first bags of luggage made their appearance.