Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 24 Issue 4

Managing a large library automation project: observations based on the Surrey County Library experience

Julia Dickmann

All projects, and especially automation projects, fall into the three stages of planning, choosing and implementation. This article charts the progress through these three stages…

Information technology in Greek libraries: problems and prospects

R.J. Hartley, I. Trohopoulos

The authors undertook a tour of Greek libraries in the Spring of 1990 in order to present a report to their sponsors (the British Council and the Greek Ministry of Education) on…

Providing online access to different views of the library catalogue: further developments of BLCMP's OPAC

Richard Wellings

The second major revision of the OPAC module of BLS (the BLCMP stand‐alone library system) allows libraries to offer users different views of the catalogue files. Record selection…

Promotional screenshows for CD‐ROM workstations

Martin J. Lewis

Promotion and marketing of services is not an area in which academic library managers can claim to have been particularly innovative or even competent until recently. Things are…

PHONIX: The algorithm

T.N. Gadd

PHONIX is a phonetic retrieval technique developed for use with the URICA library system. It has been successfully installed at a number of URICA sites in Southern Africa. PHONIX…

Adapting CDS/ISIS to index hyphenated and numeric words and incorporating case sensitive storage and retrieval

Anwar Ali Chaudhry

The mini‐micro version of CDS/ISIS (Computerised Documentation System/ Integrated Set of Information Systems) is a generalised system developed by UNESCO for non‐numerical…

Image handling for museums and libraries: report of a conference

Peter Stubley

The British Library Research and Development Department (BLR &DD) has long been interested in the developing technologies in the fields of imaging and multimedia, and in 1988…

Report on the European Conference on Library Automation and Networking

Lucy A. Tedd

The first European Conference on Library Automation and Networking was held in Brussels during 9–11 May, 1990 and was attended by about 700 participants from some 26 countries…