The Electronic Library: Volume 6 Issue 5

Taking the ship out of the bottle

Steve Cisler

I have always marvelled at the beauty of a model ship that is built in a bottle. Because my father collected ship models I was able to watch a retired Danish sea captain…

The third library revolution: experiments with electronic community libraries in Denmark

Gitte Larsen, Lars Qvortrup

These words were written by Gabriel Naudé (1600–1657) in his Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (How to manage a library), published in 1627. Born in Paris, he had already…

The construction of hypertext documents and databases

Cliff McKnight John, Richardson Andrew Dillon

The availability of powerful desktop microcomputers has meant that the ideas underlying hypertext can now be implemented in readily available software packages. However, despite…

HyperCard opens an electronic window on Glasgow

Patricia Baird

HyperCard is a powerful non‐linear database management facility which allows discrete elements or parcels of information (text and graphic) to be linked and manipulated on the…

XTree Pro: Operating system shell

Frank White

XTree Pro is a disk and file management program designed for fixed or hard disk systems having many directories and files to organise and manage. It performs the work of many DOS…

InLine: Automated outlines

Steven J. Bell

InLine is an outlining package that automatically creates as many as ten outline levels, and offers the user some wordprocessing functions. InLine is easy to learn and use. It…

CD‐ROM Review: TERMDOK — multilingual technical dictionary

David Raitt

TERMDOK is a multilingual technical dictionary on CD‐ROM created by the Swedish Centre for Technical Terminology (TNC), published by Walters Lexicon (a newly established family…

News

‘Britain will have in the future, as in the past, the finest public library service in the world.’ That was the prediction of Richard Luce, Minister for the Arts, speaking at the…