Aslib Proceedings: Volume 51 Issue 10

Will online images prove to be a multimedia cornucopia for museums?

Edith Maier

Faced with increasingly tight budgets many museums have come under pressure to explore new sources of income. The marketing of museum assets seems to offer one possibility…

Access to information on the World Wide Web for blind and visually impaired people

Charles Oppenheim, Karen Selby

The Internet gives access for blind and visually impaired users to previously unobtainable information via Braille or speech synthesis interpretation. This paper looks at how…

Public libraries and EU information

Mike Cooper

Surveys the immediate background to, and establishment of, the European Commission supported European Public Information Centres (EPICs) operating in UK public libraries. Current…

Using cluster analysis to determine the media agenda

Y.H. Kok, D. A. Holaday, A. Goh, D. A. Holaday

This paper describes a software tool that aids researchers in the study of agenda setting. Agenda setting theory claims that the mass media influences what the public thinks and…