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The electronic library manager's guide to technology for its own sake
The question I want to ask, acting as Devil's Advocate, a role I enjoy playing, is this — what's wrong with technology for its own sake? I was set to pondering after reading an…
Maggie's Place III: An electronic library revisited
Gitte LarsenMaggie's Place is the name of the Pikes Peak public library situated at the foot of the beautiful Pikes Peak mountain in Colorado Springs, USA. During the last decade the library…
Towards an electronic information service
Aatto J. RepoAdvances in information technology have made it economically feasible to automate small information services and libraries. From single applications interest is shifting to the…
Bar Coded Library Circulation Systems in Singapore
Bruce RoyanThe traditional methods of library book lending and membership control are discussed, and the advantages of bar code based automated systems are suggested. The experiences of…
Dac‐Easy Base: an alternative database
James PerryDac‐Easy Base offers many of the same features as the popular dBase II database package at afar lower price. Dac‐Easy Base runs on computers that use PC‐DOS or MS‐DOS system…
CD‐ROM Review: McGraw Hill CD‐ROM Science and Technical Reference Set
David RaittThe McGraw‐Hill CD‐ROM Science and Technical Reference Set contains, on a single disk, the 1984 editions of the McGraw‐Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the…
Smart Card storage technologies
Imagine books the size of credit cards — to read them all you need to do is put the card in a portable book‐sized reader. This is the concept behind the Smart Book which has been…
Fibre optic cables; do's and don'ts for personal computers and terminal users
Mike PepplarYour computer may talk to other computers with light, over a glass data highway — fibre optic cabling. Since more and more personal computers and terminals are being connected to…
News
Invoices, bills of lading, purchase orders, and the tons of costly paper transactions written by businesses each year may become relics of the past as industries implement…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle