Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 25 Issue 2

Dynix, automation and development at Napier Polytechnic

Gordon Dunsire, Chris Pinder

The Dynix system was purchased by Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh in March 1990, replacing a mixture of manual and small‐scale automated processes. The paper outlines the reasons…

Pica library systems: the third generation

Martin Feijen

After a general introduction of Pica, with a short discussion of library co‐operation, organisation, Pica's history, and Pica systems, the Open Library Network (OLN) project is…

Paragraph‐based access to full‐text documents using a hypertext system

Suliman Al‐Hawamdeh, Geoff Smith, Peter Willett

This paper considers the use of a hypertext system, GUIDE, for paragraph‐based searching in full‐text documents. Searching can be effected in GUIDE using both a conventional…

A UK market survey of library automation system vendors (January 1989‐January 1990)

John Blunden‐Ellis

This paper updates previous papers which surveyed the large library automation system marketplace in the UK. The present study covers the period January 1989 – January 1990 and…

Library system demonstrations in Sandwell

Susan M. Wallace, R.D. Holmes

As part of the selection process for a computer system for Sandwell Libraries, we invited the three suppliers we had shortlisted to demonstrate their systems to staff. The…