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The next Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Transfer will be held next year, on 22–25 July 1986, at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, near Bedford…
Cleveland Public Library Automation System fully operational
With a few strokes on the keyboard of a video display terminal, a patron in any of Cleveland Public Library's thirty‐one branches has access to more than 1.2 million titles housed…
4–1–1: file retrieval package
Leota S. Boesen4–1–1 is well‐suited for situations where numerous documents stored on a hard disk need to be organized and categorized for expedient retrieval. It is excellent for handling such…
STATUS: free text retrieval
Rich KisselSTATUS is an extremely powerful and useful database management package. It offers very rapid response time for searches and provides for storage of free text entries. However…
Word Finder: an electronic thesaurus
Joseph R. JudyWord Finder is a package that works. It is easy to use and can enhance the creative writing process. Word Finder will display synonyms in seconds, and replace one word with a…
HARD WARE corner
Howard FalkWe have followed recent developments in computer hardware library and information uses in these pages. Readers have likely noticed that the emphasis has been on equipment for…
The microcomputer in the library: I. Introduction
This is the first of a series of six articles, to be published in successive issues of The Electronic Library, the series forming an introduction to micro‐computer applications in…
Facing the limitations of electronic document handling
Dennis MoraleeThe new electronics‐based technologies have proved so effective at automating information handling, in libraries as well as elsewhere, that it often seems difficult to believe…
ISSN:
0264-0473Online date, start – end:
1983Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle