The Electronic Library: Volume 16 Issue 2

Hello and goodbye to all that

Ben Jeapes

‘It [a Sinclair ZX81] was about as small as a computer could be without being a pocket calculator. But, if you bought enough wobbly additional bits, including a tiny little…

Information service, students and the Internet

Wang Wanjun

The Internet has exciting potential for information services and education, so must urgently be studied in information circles. We saw the potential of the Internet at Shanghai…

News

Organisations in the UK and Ireland representing the directors of the national and university libraries, and twenty of the most significant research universities, have expressed…

Biomedical journals and the World Wide Web

Dirk Schoonbaert

Now that the World Wide Web has changed previously arcane electronic publishing into a popular everyday phenomenon, fulfilling the exciting promises of many years, a global…

The Kulturarw Project — The Swedish Royal Web Archive

Allan Arvidson, Frans Lettenström

KB (Kungliga biblioteket, The Royal Library), The National Library of Sweden, was founded in the 1500s. Since 1661, when the first Legal Deposit Law was introduced, it has…

Push and the politics of the Internet

Nancy K. Herther

We are in the midst of a major technology shift. The Internet holds the promise of radically changing not only the medium of future information, from paper to computer screens…

Indexing the Nordic countries

Anders Ardö

What was the aim in building a Nordic search engine? The goals were to build a system that:

Implementation of an online database for tables of contents of books

M. Jett, B. Reuse, G. Kessling

Many small libraries do not have the resources to build a holdings database. Thanks to the avail‐ability of affordable scanners and improved OCR software, a new approach for…

CD Recorders

Howard Falk

In 1997, some 1.6 million CD recording units were sold. One reason is that you can now buy a CD recorder at a street price that starts below $400.

New on the net

The 4th Tetralogy: Exploring Plato's Middle Dialogues. The purpose of this site is to take advantage of the growing body of literature on the Internet and new possibilities…

The information society

The European Commission has called for an International Charter for the online economy, arguing that a framework is necessary to tackle the technical, legal and social challenges…