VINE: Volume 25 Issue 1
Table of contents
Public library networking: an overview
It is usual in the VINE overview to commence with some kind of definition of the theme being covered. This time however the title appears straightforward (none of those obscure…
The public library and the Information Superhighway
Lorcan DempseyThe Information Superhighway is at this stage a vision, and not a reality; conduit, content and connectedness are discussed as the prerequisites for a high speed network, which is…
Networking in public libraries: collaborative developments at LASER
Peter SmithLASER is leading a number of different projects involving various forms of networking between public libraries. All the current collaborative projects are summarised, but the main…
CLIP update
Chris BattThe Croydon Libraries Internet Project is providing customers with access to the Internet, firstly by using Internet resources to answer reference enquiries and secondly by…
Pointing to the future: how one community's experience can benefit the country
Geoff AndrewThe IT POINT project based at Chelmsley Wood Library is seeking to assess the use and the usefulness of a range of IT and networked services in a deprived outer‐city environment…
BIBLIOFIL and the World Wide Web: IT in public libraries in Norway
Lill Bjørvik, Ola Thori KogstadThe BIBLIOFIL library management system is widely used by public libraries throughout Norway. The supplier, Bibliotek‐Systemer, recognised the importance of making public library…
The Cable Book and its Knot: an Internet public library
Mikael BookThis unusually named library was the world's first public library to mount information on a World Wide Web server. The article describes how this joint project came about…
Pilot trial of Blackwell's UnCover database
Penny DadeIn response to the perceived need for an extra quick document delivery service to the University of Hertfordshire's research and academic staff, Library and Media Services began…