The Electronic Library: Volume 3 Issue 5

News

Changes in the amount of use and the nature of use of the public catalogue of a large research library following the introduction of online subject searching capability are…

The Western Library Network

David Wasser

The past couple of years have been years of change for the Western Library Network, and more changes are being planned. The online bibliographic network has grown in size, changed…

SIRE: Information storage and searching

Christine P Portoghese, David B. Schrader

SIRE is an information retrieval package that enables a user to design, build, search and maintain text databases. It is easy to learn and use, and it has many powerful features…

RightWriter: document analysis

Dale L. Bauer

RightWriter is a very powerful tool for analysis of writing style. It can be a valuable complement to any of the popular personal computer word‐processing or text editing…

Hardware corner

Howard Falk

Many organisations now find that their computer requirements are well‐defined, or at least well‐established. And in many cases it is clear that a single personal computer will not…

First steps in choosing information retrieval packages

Microcomputers offer a new scope and a new challenge to libraries and information units. For many, computerisation of procedures is at last within budgetary restrictions and the…

The “integrated library system”

Kenneth E. Dowlin

This article is concerned with the issue that should be uppermost in the minds of those who are in a position to select the computer system for a library that desires to enter the…

The production of printed subject indexes by microcomputer

R.F. Guy, T.P. Cairnes

A case for the production of printed subject indexes is made. The MICROPSI package which allows the production of NEPHIS (NEsted PHrase Indexing System) and KWAC (Key Word And…