Academic and Library Computing: Volume 8 Issue 10

Integrated Library Systems: Pragmatic, Philosophical, and Economic Issues in Networking

There are many basic public policy issues surrounding the growth of the eventually ubiquitous electronic communications network. Unfortunately, as with many and perhaps most new…

Network Licenses

Les Lloyd

During the past few years, many professional groups, including academic computing and library personnel, have wrestled with the issue of high prices or nonexistent licenses for…

The Library in Academic Computing: Incorporating Electronic Access to Journals Through the Internet into the Virtual Collection

D. Scoff Brandf

Electronic vs. print. Access vs. ownership. Real vs. virtual. Libraries have moved from a posture of building collections to one of developing and managing them, and are now…

Online Public Access Catalogs: Networked Access to Online Public Access Catalogs

Bernie Sloan

This column marks the first in a series dealing with networked access to online public access catalogs (OPACs). Networked and remote access can take many forms. A local user can…

News Briefs: System Installations

Nancy Melin Nelson, Mary Ellen Cisero

CLSI, Inc. has signed a contract with two libraries, Superior Public Library and Montclair Library, for the LIBS 100plus (CLSI's second‐generation automation system). The library…