Library Hi Tech: Volume 11 Issue 4

PC vendor viability, or whatever happened to hitech international?

Walt Crawford

Shakeouts in the personal computer field: we're supposedly right in the middle of one now—but then, that's been said every couple of years. Nobody really likes to find that the…

Multilis: 21 years in the making

John A. Richardson

With precursor software dating to 1972, multi‐LIS became the first commercially available, fully integrated library system in North America to run on the Unix operating system. In…

Networked electronic information systems at the University of Houston Libraries: The IRIS project and beyond

Kathleen Gunning, Judy E. Myers, Charles W. Bailey

In 1989, the University of Houston Libraries began a two‐year project to build an experimental Intelligent Reference Information System (IRIS). The IRIS project established a…

The gateway to information: The future of information access…Today

Virginia Tiefel

The proliferation or information, created and sustained with the help of technology, has placed increased pressure on librarians to teach/assist library patrons to use the…

Applying innovative technology to the needs of the distant learner

Patricia J. Cutright

Academia is changing rapidly; the concept of attaining a college degree now encompasses not only the traditional ideas of attending classes on‐site at campuses but also through…

Integrating information services in an academic setting: The organizational and technical challenge

Joseph J. Branin, George D'Elia, Douglas Lund

“Integration” in this project focuses on both technical integration and organizational integration to bring a form of coherence and unity to the support and delivery of…

Post‐implementation cleanup using microcomputer‐based programming

Rob Kairis

As more libraries automate for the First time or migrate to more sophisticated integrated systems in a time of fiscal restraint and, in many cases, down‐sized staffing, the…

Cheap type, truetype: Exploring inexpensive typefaces

Walt Crawford

A curious and unexpected thing has happened to personal computing typography: it's gotten cheaper and much more interesting, thanks to TrueType, a new digital typography standard…