Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 11 Issue 1

The use of on‐line information retrieval services

P.W. Williams, J.M. Curtis

As part of a British Library Research and Development Department research programme for studying the use of on‐line information systems, UMIST examined the efficiency and…

The development of multi‐media teaching aids for users of computer‐based information retrieval systems

Gordan Pratt, Alina Vickery

This paper describes the use of a modified cassette recorder to present information and instruction to intermediaries and users of on‐line information retrieval systems using…

An on‐line computer assisted information retrieval system using a minicomputer (CAIRS)

Robert J. D. Saunders

The development and application of a minicomputer based information retrieval system (CAIRS) is described. Capable of performing several different tasks this relatively low cost…

News and Short Communications

The Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has ordered a security turnstile from ALS Limited. SOAS has already installed an ALS label‐based circulation…

Reviews

This manual is a comprehensive publication which is suitable for use by both librarians and computer systems staff engaged in applying PRECIS to library cataloguing systems. It…