Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 33 Issue 1

The benefit of Foursite: a public library consortium for library management systems

Rob Froud

Foursite is a consortium of public library authorities in the south west of the UK which came together to identify their replacement computer requirements, and subsequently went…

Academic/librarianship partnerships in the electronic library

Christine Dugdale

The necessity for closer engagement with the academic community was one of the more important conclusions to emerge from the ResIDe Electronic Reserve Project at the University of…

The case for international co‐operation in cataloguing: from copy cataloguing to multilingual subject access – experiences within the British Library

Pat Oddy

An outline of a cataloguing strategy that might be adopted for the millennium is given with reference to how such a strategy is being implemented at the British Library. The first…

Formats and cataloguing rules: developments for cataloguing electronic resources

Mirna Willer

Following a brief history of cataloguing and the MARC format this paper describes current challenges in developing suitable international formats and cataloguing rules for dealing…