Aslib Proceedings: Volume 52 Issue 1

Tales on the Internet: making it up as you go along

Chris Frost

The Internet‘s email system is a fast and efficient communication method and one that has become particularly popular for rumours and hoaxes. These include virus alerts, one of…

A strategic approach to research using Internet tools and resources

Lyn Robinson

This paper describes a method for carrying out research in a multimedia environment encompassing printed, electronic and Internet based resources. The framework was used to…

Task analysis of the webmaster: results of an empirical study

Pieter Van der Walt, Pieter Van Brakel

The functions or tasks of the typical webmaster appear to be extremely diverse in nature. These can vary from basic web page design to gathering website statistics or even to…

Teaching online information retrieval to students of journalism

Charlotte Wien

In the beginning of the 1990s it was decided to start educating journalists at two Danish universities. This was decided in the hope that such academic journalists would carry…