The Electronic Library: Volume 6 Issue 3

The electronic library manager's guide to being an autonomous astronaut

I know what you're thinking. What has being an electronic library manager got to do with being an astronaut and vice‐versa? Well, it looks like one of these all mod‐cons, look no…

Criteria for the evaluation of text storage and retrieval software

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Criteria to evaluate and select software for online text information storage and retrieval software are presented in the form of a checklist. The list has a hierarchical…

Microcomputer software for online information management: an overview

Paul Niewenhuysen

This paper summarises the findings of a critical overview to be published in 1988, of more than 200 programs for online information management. The programs are classified as…

An Interactive videodisc project: a case study from the Technical Research Centre of Finland

Riitta Nurminen Anneli Heimbürger, Mervi Lehto

At the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), an interactive videodisc project was carried out in order to gain experience in videodisc technology and its usefulness for…

Electronic bulletin board in a University Library — The University of Minnesota experience

Audrey N. Grosch

For almost a decade, some libraries have offered access to electronic bulletin boards (Bulletin Board System, or BBS) for a variety of community service purposes. Public…

InfoTools: a review of a demonstration CD‐ROM

InfoTools is a product developed specifically for distribution at Optica '87, the first international meeting for optical publishing and storage held in Amsterdam in April 1987…

CD‐ROM Review: LaserQuest

LaserQuest is a cataloguing workstation developed by the General Research Corporation (Santa Barbara, CA) who wanted to explore the medium of CD‐ROM for efficient and affordable…

News

Findings of a new report from Knowledge Research, a London‐based market research company, indicate that with the exception of Italy Europeans are taking a cautious approach to…

Fast new personal computers

Howard Falk

Readers familiar with computers will recall that the timing of the central processing unit of a computer is controlled by a clock, and that transfers of data can take place during…