Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 19 Issue 6

DIALOG CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (CIP) IMPLEMENTED IN A CONSORTIAL ACADEMIC LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT — A CONTINUING DISCUSSION

Patricia E. Wilson

Today's university students have now, and will have in the future, greater information needs than ever before. As end‐users, they will take the skills they learn and the knowledge…

MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT DELIVERY — THE BIRTH OF A NEW INDUSTRY

Philip Barden

The exponential growth of the World Wide Web in terms of sites and of users has created an environment in which the basic mechanisms of how information should be best represented…

PREPARING PAGES FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB

B.J. Spear

The World Wide Web is the hypertext/graphic images part of the Internet, and forms an ideal medium for organisations to advertise their goods and services and, if desired, to…

BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 6)

Martha E. Williams, Sarah McDougal

This is the sixth article on Business and Law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles have…

VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM — PART TWO

Stella Keenan

In the last issue, second year undergraduate students taking the Information and Society option at the Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Metropolitan…

THE FUTURE OF ASIAN INFORMATION: 1st Asian Information Meeting Hong Kong, 27–30 September 1995

The first Asian Information Meeting was held this autumn in Hong Kong, as a response to the rapid economic growth of the South East Asian region in recent years. Chairman David…

AUDIO AND VIDEO ONLINE

Linda C. Smith

This update concerns various recent developments which make it much more affordable and easier than before to access digital audio and video. Typically all that you require are a…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Paul Blake

Electronic journal initiatives unveiled. Two new initiatives to create electronic journals which allow users to retrieve pages that mirror their print counterpart have been…