Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 18 Issue 4

Towards an expert system for cataloguing: some experiments based on AACR2

Roy Davies, Brian James

Librarians have sought to reduce the cost of cataloguing by sharing bibliographic data, but it is still an expensive, labour intensive process which is a reason why short entry…

Combined production of a current awareness bulletin and database on a microcomputer

Kevin E. Green, Joyce Whiting

The use of a microcomputer in a special library to create an in‐house database of articles selected from current journals is described. Weekly current awareness bulletins are then…

Viewdata‐type searching in a free‐text (DECO) system; modifications that make searching easier for inexperienced users

W.M. Henry

The paper describes how slight changes to a free‐text retrieval system (DECO) enable two methods of searching (free‐text and hierarchical) to be offered in one system (VIEWDECO)…

HERTIS experience in the development and publication of a business databank

W.A. Forster, A.E. Hodgett, D.E. Miller, K.M. Morris

The development of the Hertfordshire business databank of companies is described with particular attention to the user‐friendly software package for editing and searching. The…

Computer‐based library systems in Scandinavian countries with focus on the Danish libraries

Elisabet Sinding, Susanne Ornager

The development of computer‐based systems in Scandinavian libraries began during the early 1970s. In the individual Nordic countries there are no approaches to formulating a joint…