Library Hi Tech: Volume 9 Issue 2

Environmental information resources and electronic research systems (ERSs): ECO‐Link as an example of future tools

Timothy C. Weiskel

As the amount of information on environmental issues expands rapidly, librarians and researchers require innovative techniques to keep abreast of it and manage it effectively…

The Electronic Library Program: Developing networked electronic library collections

Brett Butler

The Memex Research Institute (MemRI), an independent non‐profit research and development organization, has created an Electronic Library Program of shared research and development…

What's in a Library? Comparing library holdings to the constituencies served

John Kountz

While the analysis of inter‐institutional collection overlap has become the profession's current analytic “hoola hoop,” the correlation of book collection to curriculum has the…

The Windows 3.0 environment

Don Dennis, Mark Paster

In the DOS world, Windows 3.0 is an operating environment that utilizes a Graphical User Interface, or “GUI.” A GUI is an alternative to typing as a means of interacting with the…

Human‐computer interfaces and OPACS: Introductory thoughts related to INNOPAC

Helen K. Henry

Research in the area of human‐computer interfaces offers guidance for enhancing online catalogs to satisfy patrons' information needs in a “user‐friendly” environment. This…

Downloading from the OPAC: The innovative interfaces environment

Stuart Spore

This article discusses downloading from OPACs in general and from the INNOPAC system in particular. It begins by setting out a brief philosophy of downloading, providing an…

Digital diversions: Taking a break from productivity

Walt Crawford

Can you become more comfortable with your PC (and thus more productive) by playing with it? Probably—and, in any case, we all need a break now and then. Fun and games for the PC…

Library automation consultants: Current realities and issues

Edwin M. Cortez, James J. Michael, Stephen R. Salmon, Paul K. Sybrowsky, Vera Fessler, Nolan F. Pope

The reasons for using the services of a library automation consultant are numerous, but the key reason is to obtain help—expertise—not already available in the library staff. When…

P. Nulty, Private Eye, in “Escape from Alcatraz”

William Uricchio

The arms of the fog slowly enfolded the city behind us until we seemed a thousand miles at sea. Suddenly up ahead loomed the place they called “The Rock.” It looked bigger than…