Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 30 Issue 2

The CATRIONA project: feasibility study and outcomes

Mary Fletcher

The CATRIONA (Cataloguing and Retrieval of Information over Networks Applications) Feasibility Study, funded by the British Library Research and Development Department and run at…

The electronic library and distance resourcing: The Exeter experience

Martin Myhill, Sue Jennings

Changes increasing the school‐based component of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses have placed many ITT students in a distance learning situation. The one year Postgraduate…

Information technology in Danish public libraries

Pierre Evald

The paper reports on the findings from a research project on information technology (IT) in Danish public libraries, the FOLKIT‐project, conducted at the Royal Danish School of…

Electronic libraries: how soon?

S. Michael Malinconico, Jane C. Warth

Librarians are finding it increasingly difficult to acquire and to make available to their users the full range of information in print form that they require. Electronic…

Short communications

Martin Feijen

In 1993 the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag (KB) decided to start the preparations for a depository of electronic publications produced in The Netherlands as an extension to…

The production of a database of local groups in Manchester

Alec Gallimore

A pilot database, known as INFORM, which provides information about local community groups in the Manchester area was developed during 1994 and 1995 by staff in Manchester…

On designing an automated circulation system for an Indian environment

A.K. Katna

Any computer system must be capable of adapting to and serving the socio‐technical environment in which it is being developed. This is particularly true in the development of a…

ELAG 95: Report of the library systems seminar on organising the electronic library

Paula Goossens

The 19th ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Library Systems Seminar: ‘Organising the electronic library’, took place at Trondheim, Norway on June 14–16, 1995. The meeting…