The Electronic Library: Volume 6 Issue 2

Digital information organization and use

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Table of contents

The electronic library manager's guide to the truth behind installation and getting started

In this issue is a review of the Microsoft Bookshelf CD‐ROM. And thereby hangs a tale! TEL's CD‐ROM reviewers are given guidelines to help them write a decent review and among the…

News

Imagine a meeting among up to eighty people, all participating from different places in the world at a time convenient to them. Everything any participant of the meeting says is…

CD‐ROM creation and use tools

Howard Falk

Suppose you want to record material on a CD‐ROM for use in your own organisation, or for distribution to others. There are services that handle the ‘mastering’ or recording…

The Ultimate/Dynix System: Report from Ramsey County Library, Minnesota

Ramsey County Library is one of the largest library systems in Minnesota, serving some 200,000 patrons through five branches in the Minneapolis area. When it decided to…

Inmagic

Audrey N. Grosch

Now in its seventh major version, the Inmagic database, retrieval and application development software provides a continuously improved system for the library, information centre…

Automated systems in Australian libraries: a 1987 perspective

Margaret Henty Colin Steele

A survey was conducted in the second half of 1987 as to the state of automated systems in major Australian tertiary national and state libraries. An almost 100% response rate has…

CD‐ROM as an online public access catalogue

John Akeroyd

The provision of information on optical discs has had a relatively short gestation period by comparison with other new technologies, though similar problems—a lack of…

Online information services in schools

Laurel A. Clyde

Online information services are increasingly being used in schools and school libraries, both as a source of information and as a means of teaching information skills. Types of…

CD‐ROM Review: Bookshelf

David Raitt

Microsoft BOOKSHELF CD‐ROM Reference Library is a writing tool designed for use with a word processor, Bookshelf contains ten helpful reference sources which enable writers…

Cover of The Electronic Library

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle