Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 18 Issue 3

The design, development and introduction of the Harwell Library online ordering and cataloguing system — LIBCAT

E.M. Haynes

The transfer from a manual ordering system and an associated card catalogue to an online, STATUS‐based ordering and cataloguing system, LIBCAT, is described. The LIBCAT database…

CAIRS in use: Operation at British Aerospace Dynamics Group, Bristol

Alan Montgomery

The background of the decision to computerise the Bristol Division library of British Aerospace Dynamics Group is given. The reasons for the choice of CAIRS (Computer Assisted…

A computer‐based catalogue of books in Canterbury Cathedral Library

David Shaw

A project to provide a computer‐based MARC catalogue of the printed books in Canterbury Cathedral Library is described. Particular attention is given to the programs for online…

Use of INFO — a commercial database management system for periodicals control

Robert James, Barbara M. Savage

The use of a commercially available general database management system (INFO) for library purposes is reported The particular application described is the management of a…

Using a microcomputer to access bibliographic databases: experience with Userlink software in the ICI Organics Division Information and Library Services Unit

J.L. Wales

Describes development projects for utilising relatively cheap but powerful microcomputers to facilitate the searching of remote, dial‐up, databases. Viewdata and databases with…