The Electronic Library: Volume 13 Issue 3
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to corporate memory
David RaittOne thing that is grabbing the attention of organisations these days is the concept of corporate memory, i.e. retaining, mapping, navigating and retrieving an organisation's…
News
The fulfilment agency EBSCO is projecting a typical increase of 10–11% for renewing journal subscriptions for 1996. Even worse: price rises will be double that amount on average…
Interactive information systems: information access and retrieval
Ron OliverThe increasing use of computers as information storage devices is leading more and more publishers, data and information providers to use electronic interactive information…
The development of electronic surveys: a computer language‐based method
Jeffrey HsuAn important development in the processing and formatting of text has been the creation and use of markup languages, especially with the increased interest in electronic…
Libraries: once and future
Brian A. HelstienIn a recent article in The New Yorker, Nicholson Baker laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ‘paroxysm of shortsightedness and anti‐intellectualism’ on the part of…
Business analysis of the library systems market in Europe
KPMG for the European CommissionThe following is an abridged version of a full report made by KPMG, reprinted with permission from DG XIII. The entire report, including its annexes, will be published as an EUR…
Digitising the reserve function: steps toward electronic document delivery
Don L. Bosseau, Beth Shapiro, Jerry CampbellEBSCO's Executive Seminar for research library directors, Digitising the reserve function: steps toward electronic document delivery, was held on 5 February in Philadelphia, PA…
Hints for the electronic librarian: Internet World International 1995, 16–18 May, London, UK
Ben JeapesThe latest Internet World International Conference, and the first to be organised by Learned Information since the company acquired the event off the previous organisers, Meckler…
The Information Society
Governments across the world are waking up to the potential of the Information Society, to greater or lesser degrees. Some maintain that private enterprise must lead the way with…
New on the Net
Keeping up to date with every new development in the world of information would be an impossible task, but we can at least do our best with those areas that should affect or he of…
From paper to ether
Peter KrugerA growing number of publications are putting their content online — some in a measured and thought‐out manner, others as a knee‐jerk reaction to all the hype surrounding the…
Internet browsing tools
Howard FalkIf you have never been on the Internet, you are probably looking for a reasonable way to discover what this immensely popular medium has to offer. If you are already using the…
askSam: Free form database
Patrick CanganelliaskSam is a database designed to organise information which cannot easily fit into traditional databases. It is available for single‐user and multi‐user applications, and can be a…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle