VINE: Volume 29 Issue 1

Stories from the Web

Lydia Matheson, Anne Everall

This article describes Stories from the Web, a Library and Information Commission funded project investigating the use of the Internet as a tool for increasing creative reading in…

EARL and the UK Electronic Library

Debora Parr

As the rollout of the People's Network begins to gather momentum, and programmes of training and content creation get underway, EARL is developing a unique resource which will…

Croydon Online: the public library at the heart of community networking

Juliet Eve

This article traces the development of the Croydon Online Community Network, and gives examples of the innovative services which have been developed as a result of successful…

BMA Library Online: library development of Web‐based services and resources

Jane Rowlands

This paper discusses the development of Web based services and resources by the BMA Library. Web access to the library's MEDLINE Plus service has been extended to include Web…

University of Derby Electronic Library

Andrew Brown

Electronic information delivery has a significant part to play in the teaching and learning strategy at the University of Derby. Delivery systems have been implemented to support…

Music Libraries Online ‐ a virtual union catalogue for music

Katharine Hogg

Music Libraries Online is an eLib project to create a virtual union catalogue for music in the UK, based on the nine conservatoire libraries, using the Z39.50 protocol for…

BOPAC2: a new dimension in OPAC display

F.H. Ayres, M.J. Ridley

This article does not fully cover the background and philosophy behind BOPAC2. This is done by a number of published articles and reports. The present BOPAC2 which is available on…

Crossing the Border: Subject search across library catalogues — attempting to match subject descriptions by a quantitative method

Bjarne Andersson, Knut Hegna

This article is a preliminary attempt to discuss and construct an experimental library user interface, connecting different libraries in such a way that each library can search…