Library Hi Tech: Volume 14 Issue 4

Libraries and library automation in europe: Introduction to the special issue of Library Hi Tech

Kathy Willis

The European Union (EU) has provided significant financial support and motivation in creating links among Europe's major libraries and in enabling the region's poorer countries to…

Europe makes headway in networked and digital library capabilities

Ariane Iljon, Ian Pigott

Who would have imagined, half a dozen years ago, that the national libraries of Europe would be cooperating as closely as they are on access to electronic publications? Who could…

Pica and the academic libraries in the Netherlands

Danielle Oosterop

In the Netherlands, cooperation among libraries has been common for many years. By sharing a common catalog and collaborating in the interlibrary loan system, libraries have a…

Information support for scientists and researchers in Greece

Stella Vourou

In response to the first call for proposals under the 4th Framework Program of the European Union (EU), the Greek research consortia will be funded to the level of 35 billion…

German library networks in the web age

Thomas Baker

The Internet arrived on the German library scene in the fall of 1994. Until then, libraries had connected to hosts or offered their catalogs, if at all, over networks based on the…

Rebooting the east: Automation in university libraries of the former German Democratic Republic

Michael Seadle

Who knows what scholarly gems lie behind the iron doors of research library stacks in what used to be called “East” Germany? Today anyone with a network connection and a Web…

Innopac millennium: Preparing libraries for the 21st century: A perspective and commitment

David J. Greene

While most automation suppliers are willing to follow the technology trend and build products in order to stay current with market demand, the truly innovative and entrepreneurial…

PC articles worth noting January‐December 1996: A year in review

Walt Crawford

Because of the special “State of the States” issue of Library Hi Tech and other circumstances beyond my control, the four quarterly “Comp Lit” compilations for 1996 appear here in…

Technologies for learning: Instructional support at Cornell's Albert r. Mann library

Zsuzsa Koltay, Ben Trelease, Philip M. Davis

Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library was featured in a 1994 Library Hi Tech issue as a prototype of the electronic library. Mann Library, the winner of the American Library…

Testing a digital library: User response to the core project

Richard Entlich, Lorrin Garson, Michael Lesk, Lorraine Normore, Jan Olsen, Stuart Weibel

The Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment (CORE), a five‐year R&D project, was one of the earliest attempts to make a substantial volume of the text and graphics from previously…

PC Killer or this year's Newton? Thinking about network computers

Walt Crawford

By now, you have surely heard of the Network Computer or NC. The author has been poking fun at the NC in “Trailing Edge Notes” (Library Hi Tech News) for several months. This…