Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 19 Issue 4
Table of contents
Databases, downloading and proprietary rights
Rosemary GrayDownloading as a means of capturing data sent to a computer from another computer and storing it on local magnetic disk has become an important auxiliary technique in both data…
The use of the BASIS database management system to produce a highly current technocommercial database
Frances H. Barker, F. John TaylorThe requirements for producing a current database, Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB), updated weekly, including the data content, are briefly outlined. The use of BASIS for data…
ADLIB—its use by the Greater London Council Research Library
Susan Ford, Robert MarkThe ADLIB (Adaptive Library Management System) package was installed by the GLC Research Library in 1982. It is used for ordering and cataloguing stock as well as for controlling…
Online end‐user training: experiences in a large industrial organisation
Jane F. Martin, Brian G. DuttonICI plc is convinced that there is a very real role for the end‐user in the acquisition of information by online search and Mond Division has been training end‐users since 1983…
Online searching and other library uses of a Decmate II
Shelia Dibley, Janice YeadonWe have found that it is relatively unusual to use a Decmate II in the library and so the following notes may be of interest to those considering word processing/communications…
Summer courses in computing, information science, and a lot more!
Ian JohnstonIGSS (The International Graduate Summer School in Librarianship and Information Science) owes its origins to a sabbatical year which Frank Hogg, Principal of the College of…