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Publication date: 1 January 1993

Georgina Verity

The library systems market is a crowded arena, in which a proliferation of suppliers fight for a limited number of contracts. Many systems have been developed for a particular…

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The library systems market is a crowded arena, in which a proliferation of suppliers fight for a limited number of contracts. Many systems have been developed for a particular market niche, and are not easily portable to other sectors as product strengths in one market are often seen as weaknesses in another. Attitudes within the library profession have nurtured this approach, with each sector stressing the dissimilarities between styles of operation and information handling requirements.

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Program, vol. 27 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 December 1998

Lucy A. Tedd and Robin Yeates

NewsAgent for Libraries is one of the projects funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme in the UK. Following a brief historical account of the original ideas behind the…

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NewsAgent for Libraries is one of the projects funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme in the UK. Following a brief historical account of the original ideas behind the project, the main stages in developing the project – which aims to create a userconfigurable electronic news and current‐awareness service for library and information professionals with a mixture of content streams, including metadata – are described. Users’ interests are specified by profiles which are then matched with incoming records so that users are alerted by e‐mail of items of potential interest. Examples of creating profiles and of some of the “input feeds” in the project are given as well as an example of the use of the Dublin Core metadata format for describing resources covered in NewsAgent.

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Program, vol. 32 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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