The Electronic Library: Volume 14 Issue 6
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Electronic journals
Mounir Khalil, Raja Jayatilleke, Ben JeapesIn May this year at the 17th National Online Meeting in New York the main authors presented a paper (Khalil & Jayatilleke 1996) on ‘The use of electronic journals in libraries’…
News
The electronic library scene Pica has purchased a controlling interest in ALS (Automated Library Systems) and the two have formed a cooperative alliance. Pica concentrates mainly…
Living books and dynamic electronic libraries
Philip BarkerLibraries have become an established part of our scientific and social cultures. They provide an essential mechanism for storing, preserving and sharing documentary records of…
The market prospects for consumer online services in Europe
Martin WhiteThe development of online services targeted at the consumer mass market in the USA and in Europe is described. The factors that are affecting the rate of growth of these services…
Brave.Net.World: the Internet as a disinformation superhighway?
Luciano Floridi1. Overture: the problem Nobody could seriously doubt that the unidirectional mass media can be very powerful instruments of disinformation. History has already witnessed too many…
Focus Interview
Barry Mahon(The European Association of Information Services: http://www.vito.be/eusidic/homepage.htm>) retires at the end of this year. In keeping with this issue's Focus theme of ‘the…
Libraries present and future: The future of the library profession
At this year's National Online Meeting a panel chaired by Pamela Cibbarelli (Cib‐barelli Associates) and consisting of Ching‐chih Chen (Simmons University), Tom Kochtanek…
An overview of commercial electronic document delivery suppliers and services
Sandra P. Price, Anne Morris, J. Eric DaviesThere has been a proliferation in commercial electronic document delivery services. Over the past few years this consistent growth, combined with enhancements to existing…
Using scripts to automate online library activities
Rob KairisThis article discusses the use of telecommunications scripts in automating online library functions. The pros and cons of developing scripts for replacing manual keyboard entry…
The library as information provider: The home page
Laurel A. ClydeMany libraries are using the Internet's World Wide Web to provide information/or library clients and others. The article begins with a brief discussion of the situation in one…
Library databases on the Web
Howard FalkWhen a library presents it own Web site, users would like to be able to search for database information about the library's holdings, up to and including that library's entire…
Beyond the cyber‐billboard
Bob DuffyYou don't need to be a rocket scientist or a Unix programmer to realise that the World Wide Web is an invaluable platform for global outreach. Virtually any enterprise — public or…
The information society
Canada's Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC) has held the inaugural meeting for its second phase, at which it tackled how Canada should deal with a ‘borderless’ electronic…
New on the net
The Alzheimer Research Forum is a non‐profit organisation established for the purpose of supporting the information needs of researchers and to promote openness and collaboration…
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0264-0473Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle