The Electronic Library: Volume 14 Issue 5
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
The times we live in
David RaittLike the people who populate it, the world has a complex nature. For this editorial I was going to proffer some thoughts on the exciting/interesting times in which we are living…
News
The electronic library scene UMI is to acquire DataTimes Corporation. DataTimes, which provides on‐line business and information services in the US and Europe, will become a…
The LE Club Project: A synergy of systems for the ‘Learning Environment’
Finbarr JoySince June 1995, the library automation company Fretwell‐Downing (FD) has been collaborating with a group of Further Education (FE) colleges on a project to explore the use of…
The CD‐word: Reflections on user behaviours and user service
Joan WorleyWhen our library purchased its first CDROM index, I fell in love. User‐friendly cumulated indexing, in a sexy package — a librarian's dream come true! The bloom isn't entirely off…
An island of treasure in the Net: UKOLN's Treasure Island Web site
Susan BennUKOLN (the UK Office of Library and Information Networking) has created a Web resource based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island in order to explore how a…
Sheffield's Learning Centre: More than a library for the twenty‐first century
Ben JeapesWhen is a library not a library? When it's a Learning Centre. Sheffield Hallam University has integrated several former departments, including the library and others such as the…
Libraries present and future: The future of library schools
One area in which libraries can help with learning is in helping people become librarians in the first place. At this year's National Online Meeting a panel chaired by Pamela…
Libraries and learning
Libraries are much more than passive repositories of information: they can play an active role in educating and training people, communities and society at large. We spoke to…
Focus News
British Library turns a new page A new computer system at the British Library revolutionises the way visitors to the Library view the older books on display. Turning the Pages…
Silent revolution in the library: Electronic media replace printed products
Marianne Gretz, Peter Stadler, Martin ThomasThe official pharmacopoeias in the central library of Boehringer Mannheim, a research‐based German pharmaceutical company, are taken as an example to demonstrate the switch from…
An overview of electronic document request and delivery research
Sandra P. Price, Anne Morris, J. Eric DaviesThis paper presents an overview of past and present research projects associated with electronic document delivery. The paper briefly outlines the Follet Report and introduces the…
Libraries, copyright and the electronic environment
Carol RisherThe new electronic environment is coming like a speeding train or a tidal wave — inevitable and unstoppable. It is coming, but it is not yet here. Hence, the dominant technology…
Working with the Web
Howard FalkA library serves many functions but one of the most important, perhaps the central function, has been to make a wide variety of knowledge and literature locally available. In the…
Over the rainbow
Bob Duffy‘Toto, something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore.’ So says young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), opening her farmhouse door in MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939). Said farmhouse…
The information society
Brazil's mobile telephony sector has been liberalised by the country's government. Licenses are due to be awarded in the second half of 1996 so that new entrants can launch…
New on the net
A comprehensive guide and travelogue for visitors to Australia. An information resource of its people, culture, commerce and the Australian lifestyle.
ISSN:
0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle