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Communicating With Online Catalogs and Other Retrieval Systems: The Need for a Standard Command Language
Charles R. HildrethSome research has indicated that interacting with a computer through a natural language is not easier, more effective, or even preferred by new users of a system, when compared…
Full‐Text Access and Laser Videodiscs: The National Agricultural Library System
Pamela Q.J. AndreThe National Agricultural Library has developed a database, mounted on videodisc technology, that successfully integrates digital data and analog graphics. The digital data are…
CD‐ROM: A Revolution in the Making
Linda W. HelgersonAlthough many of the CD‐ROM discs produced during 1985 were prototypes or demonstration discs, more than 50 discs were available by the end of 1985. A number of CD‐ROM products…
Designing User Manuals for the Online Public Access Catalog
Peggy Seiden, Patricia SullivanThe writer of functional documents must make both macro‐ and micro‐level judgments: decisions about the format and layout of the document as well as decisions about the wording of…
The Objective Request‐for‐Proposal
James B. TaylorA Request‐for‐Proposal (RFP) performs four functions, including preparing staff for systems implementation. Traditional RFPs have been characterized by detailed performance…
The LSP/SNI Test Facility
Ray DenenbergVendors who are implementing the Standard Network Interconnection (SNI) protocols for computer to computer communications can now test their implementation against the LSP/SNI…
Mapping Information Delivery Networks: The Objectives, the Methods, the Benefits, and the Model
L.E. Murr, J.B. Williams, R.E. MillerIn response to the need to summarize the use of information/telecommunications technologies, to understand these technologies, and to comprehend the extent of public information…
Electronic Document Delivery: OCLC's Prototype System
Thomas B. Hickey, Andrew M. CalabreseOCLC has developed a CD‐ROM‐based system for the storage, distribution, and retrieval of documents. The system stores an ASCII copy of the text of the original document. It also…
Common Sense Wordworking: Writing with a Personal Computer
Walt CrawfordWriting with a Personal Computerpersonal computers, in and out of business, is word processing, which the author feels might more accurately be thought of as wordworking. That is…
Quality Control in Developing an Interinstitutional Database
Jo CalkThe establishment of quality control mechanisms, the definition of qualitative standards and objectives, and the monitoring of systems to assure compliance with those standards…
Auto‐Graphics' AGILE II
Luba HeinemannAGILE II is a full service utility providing shared cataloging in eight MARC formats with access to local data, database management, inter library loan, electronic mail, subject…
Critical Issues in Providing Integrated Library Systems
Chris SugnetSix vendors discuss the issues that most affect their role in the implementation of integrated systems within libraries. Major areas of concern include: 1) expectations versus…
Funding Library Automation
Jon DrabenstottA successful automation project combines a sound financial plan with convincing arguments, thoughtful strategies, and sensitive treatment of potential supporters. A proposal that…
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0737-8831Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho