Table of contents
The Internet Scout project
Susan CalcariOutlines the problem of using the Internet as an information source. Profiles the Internet Scout project, which attempts to provide current, selective pointers to the best…
Internet school library media center
Inez L. RamseyProfiles the development of the Internet School Library Media Center at James Madison University, Virginia. Covers the motives for creation, content selection and the role of the…
The Quebec National Library on the Web
Diane SauveProvides a general overview of the creation of the Quebec national Library Web site. Discusses why it was started, the steps in its implementation, and issues related to content…
Acqweb: book buying in the age of the Internet
Anna Belle LeisersonProfiles the development of Acqweb (an Internet gathering place for Librarians and other professionals interested in acquisitions and collection development). Outlines the…
The CIC‐EJC as a model for management of Internet accessible e‐journals
Barbara McFadden AllenIntroduces the Committee on Institutional Co‐operation and the principles upon which it is founded. Shows how this collaboration has been able to develop a successful electronic…
The nature of the beast: or the Aberdeen Bestiary on the World Wide Web
Iain Beavan, Michael Arnott, Colin McLarenDiscusses the transfer of the Aberdeen Bestiary (a 13th century manuscript) into digital format for access on the World Wide Web. Briefly covers the background to the project…
The Library of Virginia‘s Digital Library Project
Elizabeth Roderick, Jean Marie Taylor, Sam Byrd, Glen CoursonExplains the development of a project by the Library of Virginia to provide universal Internet access to the state‘s vast treasury of historical documents, records, finding aids…
The New York State newspaper project Web site
William VannPresents the experiences of setting up the New York State newspaper project Web site. Covers motives including the promotion of the little publicized service in a new format and…
Clearwater Public Library World Wide Web site
Chris LofbackDescribes the reasons behind the establishment of the Clearwater Public Library Web site. Looks at the design considerations used together with who end user would be. Covers the…
Washington Public Libraries Online: Collaborating in Cyberspace
Nancy WildinReports the experiences of a co‐operative effort to create the Washington State Public Library World Wide Web project which was to create a Web site for all libraries and users to…
Hagerstown‐Jefferson Township public library Internet Web site
Marie AlbertsonDiscusses the experiences of Hagerstown Indiana and its attempts to create an online public library. Shows how with determination, the small town was able to create a case, obtain…
Designing and redesigning: Marquette Librarie’s Web site
Kate McCreadyExamines the processes involved in creating a library/related Web site. Attempts to identify answers to the following questions: how a library should attempt to design or redesign…
Schaffer library home page: structured access to library and Internet resources
Bruce Connolly, Gail M. GoldermanOutlines the development process which the Schaffer home library went through to create and design its Web site for Union College Schenectady, New York. Profiles the features of…
The Michigan Electronic Library
Susanna L. DavidsenProfiles the largest evaluated and organized Web based electronic library of resources in the world, Michigan Electronic Library. States the goals of the project and briefly the…
How we founded LibraryLand
Jerry KuntzOutlines the reasons for developing LibraryLand, which provides an organized site to link the huge availability of library related sites together and attempts to convince others…
EEVL: an Internet gateway for engineers
Linda Kerr, Roddy MacLeodIntroduces the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), offering a gateway to Internet resources for engineering. Argues for the need for such a gateway. Looks at the…
Browsing your virtual library: the case of Expanding Universe
Wayne DanielsOutlines the Web site, Expanding Universe, maintained by the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library which is essentially a subject specific link library using the Dewey…
ESS: the Library of Congress experimental search system
Dean Wilder, Rich GreenfieldPresents the experiences of the Library of Congress‘s experimental Web based public catalogue which sets out to combine the varied resources of the library through one gateway…
OhioLINK ‐ The Ohio Library and Information Network
Thomas DowlingProfiles the project OhioLINK which is an online state‐wide project to provide centralized access to bibliographic databases held at different library locations and its subsequent…
Adding value to Internet collections
Stephen E. ToubThe benefits of a library providing access to remote Internet resources lie in the ways librarians add value to their Internet collections. This article opens with a discussion of…
Save the time of the surfer: evaluating Web sites for users
Stephen W. SowardsA good web site has a purpose for the designer who wrote the page, the editor who maintains it and the Web surfer who finds it. One can think about this by paraphrasing and…
Vision vs reality: planning for the implementation of a Web‐based online catalogue in an academic library
Nancy K. Dennis, Christina E. Carter, Sever BordeianuMany academic libraries are migrating to Web‐based online catalogs from traditional text‐based versions. These Web OPACs function as gateways to resources held not only locally…
Options for the presentation of multilingual text: use of the Unicode standard
Janet C. EricksonThe use of Unicode/10646 will increase dramatically in the coming few years for many reasons. Use of the Internet has increased awareness of the problems inherent in the use of…
Words to compute by: keeping up with personal computing terminology
Walt CrawfordIf you want to make some sense of personal computer ads and articles, you need to understand the terminology ‐ not all of it, to be sure (that way lies madness), but a few of the…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho