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News
The dynamic evolution and new direction of nonprint media in the information professions continually change the emphasis and character of activities, services and equipment. It is…
Ultrafile for predefined data
UltraFile is a full‐featured data management system that can be used to organize, retrieve, calculate, print and graph predefined data on employees, mailing lists, inventories…
SEEKEASY
SEEKEASY is a new free‐form information filing and retrieval program that has just come onto the market. It is available from CORRELATION SYSTEMS: 81 Rockinghorse Road, Rancho…
Bibliotek: designed for handling bibliographies
Bibliotek is a package for inputting and retrieving citations, and for producing printed bibliographies in a variety of formats. Citations to books, periodicals, and conference…
Library Mate: database with keyword indexing
Library Mate is a flexible database package suited to applications that require keyword indexing and retrieval. This reviewer found the package of particular value in creating…
Hardware corner
Howard FalkToday, most personal computers are equipped with floppy disk drives, but as needs for information storage on computers grow, ‘hard’ disks having larger capacities become more and…
Audio Visual Union List — Micro to Mini Communication
How would you like 12,000 audio visual items for the price of 1000 items?
CDROM: dramatic key to information dissemination and use
Optical publishing will become very widespread in the next few years because it dramatically lowers the cost of information dissemination and use. Libraries and other professional…
Building a special library's database — special considerations
Lynda W. MoultonThis article describes the considerations a special library must address before building a database. It is based on the practical experiences of the Comstow staff and some actual…
Users and local area networks: opportunities for information transfer
Joyce M. Copeland, Stephen FloodThis paper describes some of the findings of a research project (October 1983‐October 1985 funded by BLRDD), investigating the applications of local area networks (LANs) in…
Application of a personal/business computer in library automation. Updating a main‐frame resident authority file
M.C. Steensland, T.G. SpaithKeeping a library authority file up‐to‐date and therefore authoritative can be a cumbersome task even when the file is maintained in computer‐readable form. When, in addition, it…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle