Library Hi Tech: Volume 9 Issue 4

Fax‐on‐Demand: An Introduction

Christine E. Lachman

Computer‐based fax‐on‐demand systems will answer the phone and guide a caller through voice menu selections. The caller identifies the information desired by pressing the numbers…

The FirstSearch Experience at the Ohio State University

Karen R. Snure

In February 1991, OCLC began testing its newly developed product—the FirstSearch™ Catalog. Designed distinctly for the end‐user, FirstSearch is an online computer system providing…

The Research Potential of the Electronic OED Database at the University of Waterloo: A case study

Donna Lee Berg

The online database of the second edition of the OED, combined with tools developed at the University of Waterloo, gives researchers a unique opportunity to explore the dictionary…

Setting up general purpose CD‐ROM Workstations

Robert L. Bolin

Libraries need to provide general purpose CD‐ROM workstations to make the large numbers of publications distributed on CD‐ROM disks available to the public. Setting up and…

Planning for Network Disaster: Telecommunications Diversity in the New OCLC Network

Larry L. Learn, George L. Carpenter

Recently, OCLC successfully completed a multi‐year network design, procurement, implementation, and user transition effort. At a cost of $70 million, this effort resulted in the…

Clay tablets to micro chips: The evolution of archival practice into the twenty‐first century

Stephen E. Hannestad

In the future, library applications related to traditional functions may increasingly assume some of the roles and characteristics of archives and museums. In this article, the…

The latest and greatest: Upgrade, replace, or stall? Part II: Software

Walt Crawford

IBM owners who upgraded to PC‐DOS 4.0 may rightly whimper when confronted with software upgrades—and this time, thanks to System 7, Macintosh owners don't get to nod smugly…