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Publication date: 1 January 1996

Ben Jeapes

A delight and a curse of editing The Electronic Library is the sheer variety of topics covered, and the fact that we have no way of knowing what is coming in from our authors. TEL…

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A delight and a curse of editing The Electronic Library is the sheer variety of topics covered, and the fact that we have no way of knowing what is coming in from our authors. TEL is primarily an academic, information‐disseminating journal whose articles are for the most part unsolicited — while some features are requested or researched in‐house, for the bulk of our material we rely on submissions from authors who feel that their work is important and that they have something to say. We are now in our fourteenth year and so far they have never let us down.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 January 1998

Ben Jeapes

One of the sessions at December's Online Information Meeting in London dealt with the Information Society: what it is, how it can come about and the implications for the people…

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One of the sessions at December's Online Information Meeting in London dealt with the Information Society: what it is, how it can come about and the implications for the people who live in it.

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Online and CD-Rom Review, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1353-2642

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

Arthur P. Winzenried

Modern information provision is making increasingly unique demands on existing providers. At Lilydale Adventist Academy, a small and conservative secondary college near Melbourne…

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Modern information provision is making increasingly unique demands on existing providers. At Lilydale Adventist Academy, a small and conservative secondary college near Melbourne, we have had to confront a limited budget, greatly increased demand and even greater expectation with a system that offers flexibility and the greatest degree of automation. The system is a fully integrated one accessing all forms of current and expected media with a minimum of teacher‐librarian intervention. Student workstations have access to all materials and to all available programs at the same workstations. Cost effective set‐ups allow reasonable control and some degree of cost recovery as regards consumables. Throughout this exercise students have been actively encouraged to provide input both as regards their needs as well as actually performing some of the establishment work. The whole exercise has been a serious effort to establish a system which reflects expressed needs as well as implementing some degree of future capacity. In its attempt to meet such a wide variety of needs it is not unlike that mythical beast slain by Ulysses. His Hydra with its many heads is very much like the technology installed at Lilydale to cater for the many needs.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 15 no. 4
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ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Ben Jeapes

‘It [a Sinclair ZX81] was about as small as a computer could be without being a pocket calculator. But, if you bought enough wobbly additional bits, including a tiny little…

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‘It [a Sinclair ZX81] was about as small as a computer could be without being a pocket calculator. But, if you bought enough wobbly additional bits, including a tiny little printer which printed on rolls of aluminiumised paper, and you plugged it into the TV, and you worked very slowly, and prayed a lot, and copied everything out on a real typewriter afterwards, you could word‐process. If you didn't mind working only in capital letters …

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The Electronic Library, vol. 16 no. 2
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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Ben Jeapes

Expert Systems, one of this publication's sister journals, has been sold by our publisher Learned Information to Blackwells. This will mean nothing to most of TEL's readers, as…

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Expert Systems, one of this publication's sister journals, has been sold by our publisher Learned Information to Blackwells. This will mean nothing to most of TEL's readers, as the crossover readership was never very high. It's a more personal event for me as it was the first journal for which I was made Managing Editor, and I like to think that I had a hand in turning it into the desirable property it became from Blackwells' point of view.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 3
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Publication date: 1 May 1996

Ben Jeapes

The idea of intelligent agents has been around for some time now: software packages that browse online information for material of particular interest to you, the user. With the…

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The idea of intelligent agents has been around for some time now: software packages that browse online information for material of particular interest to you, the user. With the World Wide Web growing at the rate it is (the Net Happenings list, to which this reviewer subscribes, reports in the region of 150–200 new sites a week, and that is just the ones people tell it about) the concept of an army of intelligent agents doing research for you has a certain appeal.

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Online and CD-Rom Review, vol. 20 no. 5
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ISSN: 1353-2642

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Publication date: 1 May 1996

Ben Jeapes

When is a library not a library? When it's a Learning Centre. Sheffield Hallam University has integrated several former departments, including the library and others such as the…

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When is a library not a library? When it's a Learning Centre. Sheffield Hallam University has integrated several former departments, including the library and others such as the Learning and Teaching Institute, into the Learning Centre, a new department headed by the former university librarian Graham Bulpitt. The name, Mr Bulpitt says, was chosen to emphasise that it was more than a replacement for the existing library. The Learning Centre is ‘an integrated environment which anticipates changes in teaching and learning, and developments in information technology.’

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 January 1997

Ben Jeapes

The Electronic Library recently received a disappointed e‐mail asking why the journal, with a title like that, wasn't available electronically. A very good question, which is only…

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The Electronic Library recently received a disappointed e‐mail asking why the journal, with a title like that, wasn't available electronically. A very good question, which is only partially answered by the fact that the journal is 15 years old and came into the world when the Internet was half its present age and a fraction of its size, CDs were an embryonic technology and the World Wide Web just didn't exist. E‐journals are now here to stay and any publisher worth its salt is looking at how its publications, too, can be made available in this manner. There is inevitably a very large element of keeping up with the neighbours involved — no one wants to seem to lag behind the competition — and too many companies plainly are not flunking the matter through before launching their electronic products. We have no desire to go broke or to launch an unviable product in the name of progress, and perhaps that is why we have so far erred on the side of caution: but believe me, we are working on it.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 15 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 March 1997

Ben Jeapes

Online & CDROM Review started life 20 years ago, minus the ‘& CDROM’, as a review of the technologies behind and the applications of online information Then, as now, the vendors…

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Online & CDROM Review started life 20 years ago, minus the ‘& CDROM’, as a review of the technologies behind and the applications of online information Then, as now, the vendors of online information were no strangers to thinking commercially: they had a product to sell and livings to make like anyone else.

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Online and CD-Rom Review, vol. 21 no. 3
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ISSN: 1353-2642

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Publication date: 1 March 1995

Ben Jeapes

The latest Internet World International Conference, and the first to be organised by Learned Information since the company acquired the event off the previous organisers, Meckler…

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The latest Internet World International Conference, and the first to be organised by Learned Information since the company acquired the event off the previous organisers, Meckler, took place at Wembley Conference Centre, London from 16–18 May. Clearly, the clue to the theme of the conference is in its title — the Internet — and if we wanted to heap acclaim on the event, its organisers, its exhibitors and its attendees, we could go on for ever. It was generally agreed that there has never been anything like the Internet for information distribution, which hopefully is not telling readers of The Electronic Library anything new. So what came out of it that is actually of interest to TEL? Most of the discussion mentioned below centred around electronic publishing. However, what follows is really applicable to any sort of activity interested in providing a service and staying in business, including electronic librarians.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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