Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 20 Issue 4

Library automation in British universities

Rollo G. Woods

This paper is adapted from a report to the University Grants Committee's Equipment Sub‐Committee and summarises the responses to a letter of enquiry sent by this Sub‐Committee to…

INSTRUCT: a teaching package for experimental methods in information retrieval. Part II. Computational aspects

Ian G Hendry, Peter Willett, Frances E. Wood

INSTRUCT is an interactive computer program illustrating some of the techniques which have been suggested for use in future text retrieval systems. The program is designed as a…

A journals binding system at Sunderland Polytechnic using dBase II

S. Halliday

The paper describes the use of a Digital Rainbow computer for organising, listing, displaying and retrospectively storing records of journals sent for binding at Sunderland…

Library automation in Nigeria: achievements and constraints on progress

S.J. Agha

This communication emerges from a survey carried out as part of the author's Master's dissertation. Library automation in Nigeria has been a subject of attention since the…

Experience with facsimile transmission in Birmingham libraries

Peter Stubley

In April 1984 the British Library Research and Development Department (BLR&DD) funded a twelve‐month project to investigate the use of facsimile transmission in libraries. Of the…

Report on the European Library Automation Group meeting at the National Library of Spain, Madrid, 23–25 April 1986

Paula Goossens

ELAG — the European Library Automation Group has existed for seven years now, and held its tenth meeting in the National Library of Spain in Madrid April 23–25 1986. OPACs (online…

Report on the Second International Conference on the Application of Microcomputers in Information, Documentation and Libraries, Baden‐Baden, Federal Republic of Germany 17–21 March 1986

Chris Batt

This conference was sponsored by Unesco, and organisations involved with information and documentation in West Germany. Although papers on many applications were presented, Unesco…