Library Review: Volume 36 Issue 1

LIBRARY AUTOMATION AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

TOM CRAWSHAW

In this article, I do not intend to describe, except in the briefest terms, the LS2000 system, as this has already been ably reviewed elsewhere. Rather, it will be my aim to…

AUTOMATION OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES AT ASTON UNIVERSITY

LYNNE BRINDLEY, FRANCES KRIVINE, BRUCE REID

Aston is a technological university, fully committed to the use of information technology within its teaching, research and support programmes. The Library and Information Service…

A QUESTER IN SEARCH OF ACCLAIM

G.R. BALL

Whether it is right, in the era of GEAC, OCLC, DOBIS/LIBIS and other available turnkey systems, that any library authority should still try to develop an in‐house system, can be…

LANCASHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY'S INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEM

GRAHAM G.W. DUNBAR

Lancashire County was formed, following Local Government Reorganisation in 1974, from eighteen constituent parts, including the former County and several independent Borough…

CLSI AT COVENTRY

JOHN FLETCHER, BRIDGET TOWLER

In the United Kingdom public libraries are under the control of local authorities, city or county elected bodies, funded from local taxes, with some un‐earmarked central…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN AUTOMATED INFORMATION SERVICE FOR INDUSTRY

JULIA WILKINSON

The Turing Institute has established a Library of the core publications in the field known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this article I will briefly describe the kinds of…

CHOOSING A LIBRARY SYSTEM

D.M. NICHOLSON

There was a time, in the not too distant past, when choosing a library system was more often than not a simple matter of deciding to take the one option on offer, for example, the…