Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 27 Issue 1

The impact of automated library systems on job design and staffing structures

Hilary Dyer, Deborha Fossey, Kathryn McKee

The introduction of an automated library system brings changes in the working environment. If job design within the altered environment is not considered, the result can be…

MUSLS — a multi‐media, multi‐discipline database: Part 1, defining requirements, selecting the system and initial development

Chris Batt, Sally MacDonald, Tony Scott

A joint local studies library and museum database is being developed to support the services in the new central library and museum which is being built in Croydon and which will…

Shareware database management software: an assessment of its usefulness to information officers in small voluntary sector organisations in the UK

Jean Harding, Gillian Martin

Small voluntary sector organisations with limited budgets often cannot afford expensive commercial software and may not need all the facilities such software provides. A large…

SANJAY: an Indian library automation package based on CDS/ISIS

J.K. Bhargava, R.K. Sricastava, S.S. Murthy

A library automation software package (SANJAY) has been developed in the CDS/ISIS V2.3 environment extensively using the Pascal interface to meet the requirements of a model…

A decision‐support system for monitoring reservation‐queue data from LIBERTAS

Terry Wall

Automated library systems are capable of producing large amounts of data, but these data may often need to be supplemented in some way or interpreted by the librarian before they…

Relational database management systems and open systems used in the development of Oracle Libraries

Georgina Verity

The library systems market is a crowded arena, in which a proliferation of suppliers fight for a limited number of contracts. Many systems have been developed for a particular…