The Electronic Library: Volume 17 Issue 6

Leading the field: the role of the information professional in the next century

Jackie Marfleet, Catherine Kelly

Considers the role of the information professional in the next century in addition to informational retrieval skills. Covers the need to develop the role as trainer and…

The changing face of geographic information on the web: a breakthrough in spatial data sharing

Martie Pienaar, Pieter van Brakel

Users of geographic information systems (GIS) often need immediate access to current data and information for proper analysis of GIS data. In the past, datasets were captured by…

Empowering users – current awareness on the Internet

Ina Fourie

The users of information services should be enabled to fully exploit current awareness services (CAS) on the Internet to their own benefit and also that of the larger…

Teaching information management via a web‐based course

Pieter Van Brakel

The unique features of the web, such as hypertext and hypermedia, the large number of web sites with good quality information sources, current developments in electronic commerce…

Projecting the library onto the web

Howard Falk

Outlines the library Web page from the remote and internal user points of view. States that the outside user needs to be attracted to the site and find unique material whilst the…