Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 31 Issue 1

COPAC: the new national OPAC service based on the CURL database

Shirley Anne Cousins

COPAC is the new OPAC providing a unified interface to the consolidated database of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL). This paper provides a brief overview of…

Electronic library and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia

Martin Myhill

Economic difficulties facing the countries of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia as a result of recent political changes are constraining funding for education. However, there…

Minstrel – Management information software tool for European libraries

Roy J. Adams

The ability to manipulate efficiently data for management information is becoming increasingly important. Minstrel, a European Union funded project is creating a software tool…

Librarians and innovation: an American viewpoint

S. Michael Malinconico

This paper presents a historical overview of technological developments and their use in libraries and argues that librarians have always been amongst the first to adapt to, and…

Developing a web library guide for an academic library: problems, solutions and future possibilities

Richard Biddiscombe, Kevin Knowles, Ian Upton, Karen Wilson

This article describes the development of a Web Library Guide at the University of Birmingham, UK. Having developed a hypertext guide using Asymetrix Toolbook which gave guidance…