The Electronic Library: Volume 15 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Table of contents
Libraries and the World Wide Web
Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Patrick VanouplinesThis guest editorial forms a brief introduction to an issue of The Electronic Library which focuses on libraries and the World Wide Web. To start with, the basics and state of the…
News
A £50 million bid to give every UK citizen free access to the Internet through public libraries, using money from the Millennium Fund, has been rejected by the Millennium…
Selecting Internet resources: Experience at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library
Kim Fung YipBeginning in May 1995, HKUST Library adopted a whole library approach to work on the Library World Wide Web project. All professional librarians in the library were assigned to…
Marketing leisure services over the Web in a county council
I.R. Murray, G.F. SargentThis paper describes the provision of a feasibility study for the development of a county leisure information service for a shire county in England, and discusses how the…
Geographic information systems: How a World Wide Web presence can improve their availability
Pieter A. van Brakel, Martie PienaarGeographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly being used for effective accessibility to spatial data. A GIS comprises much more than the mere storage of data: spatial data…
Getting the Web into libraries
For a library to have a Web page, someone has to put it there and someone has to maintain it. Matt Holland is Subject Librarian for the School of Media Arts and Communication…
Focus news
The first mirror site of IFLANET is up and running, hosted by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) in Vandoeuvre‐les‐Nancy, France. It can be visited at…
Publishers, publishing and the Internet: How journal publishing will survive and prosper in the electronic age
John E. CoxThe role of the publishing process in adding value to, and disseminating, scholarship and research is independent of the means of output. It comprises the preparation and…
Planning, implementing and managing CD‐ROM services in developing countries
Athanase B. KanamugireThis paper discusses some issues and challenges which library information systems in developing countries have faced in planning, implementing and managing CD‐ROM services. It…
Z39.50 applications in a medical school
Alain Besson, Bob Chapman, Kate CheneyAfter nearly a decade in the making, the Z39.50 protocol is quickly finding its place in many library systems, giving libraries the opportunity to link applications in ways…
New on the net
Acupuncture FAQ. An FAQ on acupuncture, how it works, Western and Chinese explanations, and so on.
The information society
International New copyright provisions for digital transmission. Two new treaties relating to copyright in digital transmissions have been agreed by the World Intellectual…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle