VINE: Volume 23 Issue 2

Link into Hypertext

Eve Wilson

Hypertext is the computer storage of information as fragmented but linked multi‐dimensional documents. Such systems offer many advantages over the printed word, for example for…

Experimental Hypertext Library Guide at South Bank University

Roger Fairman

In order to relieve pressure on the Enquiry Desk from an ever increasing student population, South Bank University have produced a prototype hypertext library guide based on…

Establishing Hypertext for User Education: one library's experience

Michael Aynsworth

A Nene College research project to investigate the potential for hypertext use in libraries involved the design and implementation of an interactive hypertext guide to the College…

Hypertext in UNICORN

Nick Dimant

Utilising BRS/Search software, hypertext search facilities are offered by Sirsi's UNICORN system through the standard OPAC and provide powerful retrieval capabilities even when…

The Isle of Wight County Library and Oracle Libraries: a user's view

Tim Blackmore

Fretwell‐Downing's UNIX‐based library package, Reflexion, now sold and marketed under the Oracle name, is installed in Isle of Wight County Libraries where it is used to service…

Serials Management with CAIRS at the Institution of Electrical Engineers

Sally Jenkins, Janet Tomlinson

In order to rationalise an assortment of automated systems, the IEE Library implemented the CAIRS LMS and IMS modules following extensive flowcharting of procedures and evaluation…

Marquis of Dynix Rules

A new Windows based system from Dynix, first installed in the US in 1991, is due to be officially launched in Europe this summer. Featuring client‐server architecture the system…