Library Hi Tech: Volume 4 Issue 3

Performance and Capacity of Centralized and Distributed Online Catalogs: Part 1 — Centralized Online Catalogs

Hank Epstein

The design of an online public access catalog greatly affects the performance and capacity requirements of the computer system. The characteristics of traditional menu and…

OCLCs Intelligent Gateway Service: Online Information Access for Libraries

Stephan Zinn, Martin Sellers, Debra Bohli

A gateway system guides a user to, or automatically selects, an applicable information source, such as a database or file. Once the selection is made, all other network and log‐on…

Electronic Document Interchange and The AAP Electronic Manuscript Project

J. Sperling Martin

The dramatically expanding use of personal computers and word processors has made it easier to create and revise text. However, the diversity of technologies and device…

Benchmark and Acceptance Tests: Why and When to Use Them

Joseph R. Matthews

Acceptance and benchmark tests will provide important assurances that an automation system will meet defined performance requirements. Three acceptance tests should be required by…

TOMUS: The System's Design and Features

Stephen R. Salmon

The Online Multiple User System (TOMUS) is an integrated turnkey library system, consisting of both hardware and software. It is modular, operating on multiple microprocessors…

Common Sense Wordworking II: The FinalWord II, WordPerfect 4.1, and PC‐Write 2.5

Walt Crawford

Librarians and other professionals preparing complex documents benefit from sophisticated wordworking systems. A small handful of wordworking systems provide unusually flexible…

MicroLIAS: Beyond the Online Public Access Catalog>

Dace I. Freivalds, Sylvia MacKinnon Carson

MicroLIAS is an extension of LIAS (Library Information Access System), the integrated mainframe‐based library system developed at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries…

System Performance

Chris Sugnet

Representatives of six prominent library system vendors—Joseph R. Matthews (Inlex), Mike Monahan (Geac), Kelvin Browne (Utlas), Carl Lee (VTLS), Michael J. Mellinger (Data…

System Performance

Jon Drabenstott

Five prominent consultants—James Rush, Richard Smith, Susan Baerg Epstein, Jose‐Marie Griffiths, and Rob McGee—address the issues that most effect system performance. They note…