Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 11 Issue 4

Communications networks for computers—an introduction to the technical details

Lucy A. Tedd

Discusses similarities and differences in the various definitions of the word network. It has come to have two meanings in the library and information science field. Firstly there…

The origins, development and future of Euronet

A.J. Dunning

Traces the background to setting up EURONET following a resolution passed by the Council of Ministers of the European Communities on the coordination of Scientific and Technical…

Backfile conversion today: CIM era or chimera?

John Ross, Bruce Royan

The difficulties of retrospective library catalogue conversion are described. Computer Input Microfilm (CIM) is compared with more conventional Optical Character Recognition (OCR…

SWALCAP on‐line system: a technical summary

M.C. Green

The SWALCAP On‐line System became operational in September 1976, providing full Circulation Control facilities. Development of Cataloguing facilities is now in progress. This…

MARCIS—an Israeli MARC‐based cataloguing system

R. Israeli, K.D. Ofer, U. Bloch

MARCIS is a cooperative cataloguing system using the MARC tapes. Its primary goals are to create a machine‐readable file of each library's holding, to output catalogues in various…

News and Short Communications

It is with considerable regret that we announce the resignation of Philip Bramall as News Editor. His appointment as Applied Sciences Librarian at University College Cardiff has…

Survey of the Cost of Using the British Post Office's International Data Base Access Service at the Science Reference Library

This service began in February 1977 to enable users in the UK to communicate with online information retrieval services in the United States. Up to that time, access could only…

Reviews

Optical character recognition: use of OCR techniques in decentralized data collection for bibliographic information systems. Ottawa: IDRC, 1976.