Academic and Library Computing: Volume 8 Issue 6

Online Public Access Catalogs‐ New Interface Possibilities

Michael Schuyler

Last month I left the McDonald's cash register interface squared off against Lare Mischo's “command line or death” ultimatum. To those who feel each end of this spectrum has…

Integrated Library Systems: Performance and the RFP: How Not to Do It

Mark Hinnebusch

This is the second part of a multipart series on performance issues in library automation, especially as they pertain to the RFP process. In the last issue, I discussed some of…

Using the Internet to See What's Out There — Accessing Remote CWISs and Libraries

Les Lloyd

The national network connecting colleges, research institutions, and some businesses — the Internet is actually an amalgam of many smaller networks. Originally constituted by the…

The Library in Academic Computing: Downloading Revisited, or Putting up with Clumsy Data Transfer All Over Again…

D. Scott Brandt

Huh? Clumsy data transfer on the Internet? No way! With the TCP/IP sophisticated file transfer protocols data passes accurately and efficiently across the network. Even the…

INFORMA: Exploring Possibilities in Multimedia

Gretchen I. Johnson, Maria Sugranes

In 1989, IBM desiring to establish closer working relationships with libraries particularly with academic libraries established INFORMA as “a forum for current and prospective…

News Briefs

Nancy Melin Nelson

DiskLock for the PC. Fifth Generation Systems has released DiskLock for the PC. DiskLock is a data security package that provides the highest level of security available, yet it…