The Electronic Library: Volume 12 Issue 5
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The future of libraries in the face of the Internet
David RaittTwo or three weeks ago, I was asked to contribute a couple of hundred words to a column which was publishing personal opinions of topical issues of interest to the profession. The…
GENESIS — a new beginning or a new generation
Jennifer RowleyGENESIS, from SCG, the supplier of the well established library management system BookshelF (sic), is one of the first library management systems to run as a Windows product with…
Will new information technology destroy copyright?
Victor RosenbergNew information technologies will destroy copyright as we currently know it. Once it is simple to send articles in image form anywhere on the Internet to one or many colleagues…
The ELINOR Electronic Library System
Dian G. ZhaoThe ELINOR electronic library system is a well integrated, fully functioning system implemented at De Montfort University in 1993. The system currently contains the full contents…
Information technology and the third industrial revolution
Joe FitzsimmonsThe third industrial revolution, fueled by the combined powers of information technology, is changing not only the way we work but also our perceptions, definitions and insights…
The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry Programme for Advanced Information Infrastructure
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has devised a programme to define clearly MITI's concept of the directions that the advanced information infrastructure…
Digitisation of the new Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Throughout the world there are only a few major national libraries: the British Library in London, the National Library of Congress in Washington and the National Library of…
CDROM recording for every library
Howard FalkPerhaps you have a large database you would like to distribute, or you may want to archive materials in a computer‐read‐able form that will last for 70 to 100 years. These goals…
Continued power with full‐text CDROM
Harold T. ReidFull‐text CDROM is a powerful tool and publishers are finding ways to build more into their product. World Library has upgraded Library of the Future with a third edition (World…
News
In the wake of UMI's dramatic announcements reported in our previous issue, The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has revealed plans of its own for an ‘Electronic…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle