Library Hi Tech: Volume 5 Issue 2

The Information Network: Its Structure and Role in Higher Education

Douglas E. Van Houweling

The most suitable system architecture for higher education has been dramatically altered by rapid change in information technology and its use. The low cost of mini‐ and…

Parallel Processing Creates a Low‐Cost Growth Path

Alex Shekhel, Eva Freeman

A parallel‐processor computer contains multiple CPUs that share such system resources as memory and disk storage. A parallel‐processor computer is expanded not by adding another…

Educating the Future Information Professional

Toni Carbo Bearman

A number of prominent educators, executives of professional associations, and business leaders address the positive and negative characteristics of contemporary library education…

Common Sense Clones: Price and Performance in PC‐Compatible Computers

Walt Crawford

PC clones are well suited to anyone who has uses for IBM‐compatible software and is not over‐awed by those three magic letters. Clones now hold a much larger microcomputer market…

DOBIS and NOTIS: A Contrast in Design

Bonnie Juergens, Ruth Blake

NOTIS and DOBIS are both designed to be technically and functionally integrated. The online catalog is the heart of each system, and all functions interact with a single set of…

Electronic Information Delivery Systems: Reports on Five Projects Sponsored by the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust

Douglas K. Ferguson

The Fred Meyer Charitable Trust, Division of Library and Information Resources for the Northwest, has funded five research projects that will demonstrate the potential of various…

Library Automation and Library Education

Jon Drabenstott

Library automation has both tested the educational preparation of librarians and created new educational demands. Four major consultants—James E. Rush, Jose‐Marie Griffiths…

Education and Automation—Present and Future Concerns

Chris Sugnet

The automation process has a tendency to reveal strengths and weaknesses in a library, its management style, its organizational structure, and the abilities of its staff members…