The Electronic Library: Volume 10 Issue 2

The Electronic Library Manager's Guide to the Silk Road

The traditional date for the opening of the Silk Road was 105 BC when the Chinese drove halfway across Asia to link up with a like route running from the Mediterranean to Central…

Small can be beautiful: Automation efforts at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Library

O.R. Adeniran

This paper describes the automation experience of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Library. It particularly describes how the library used the small computer…

Collaboration in the creation of national bibliographic resources

Maria Luísa Cabral

Based on the author's experience as coordinator of Portugal's National Library Automation project, the paper examines some aspects of the collaboration required to create a…

Rebels in search of champions: envisioning the library of the future

Amal Moulik, Dennis Lai

The traditional role of librarians, securing and providing access to the archives of recorded knowledge, is being rapidly challenged on three fronts: the increasing technical…

Automated library system migration in the United States

Lester J. Pourciau

The application of computer technology to routine procedures in libraries has been evolving for more than twenty years. As technology has made new applications possible and as…

InfoMapper: information resource inventory tool

Gerald Lundeen

InfoMapper provides a framework, complete with forms and reports, for gathering and organizing an inventory of an organization's information resources. InfoMapper Release 1.2 is…

News

‘Living is learning,’ Konrad Lorenz once remarked, to which multimedia system designers might add that the more life‐like the educational tools, the better the learning. Hence…