Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 28 Issue 2

A UK market survey of library automation system vendors (1992–1993)

John Blunden‐Ellis, E Margaret, Graham

This paper updates previous papers which surveyed the large library system marketplace in the UK. The current study has been expanded to embrace the full range of suppliers and…

Preserving compatibility with standard data formats

Peter Simmons

Librarians in countries without well‐established national bibliographic systems increasingly find themselves faced with the problem of establishing local formats for…

Publication of the Bodleian Library's Pre‐1920 Catalogue of Printed Books on compact disc

Michael Heaney

The history of the Bodleian Library's Pre‐1920 Catalogue of Printed Books is given, with particular emphasis on the developments commencing with computerisation from 1967. The…

Using CDS/ISIS for a full‐text community information system in Belgium: the GIDS‐system

Egbert De Smet

The CDS/ISIS software for textual data management, distributed by Unesco and now gaining popularity in the Third World and non‐profit organisations, proves to combine enough power…

Bi‐lingual bibliographic software for processing library materials in the Arabic language

M. SALEH Ashoor, Abdus Sattar Chaudhry

Bibliographic applications require special software capabilities if they are to provide the flexibility necessary for creating textual databases. Many specialised computer…