Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 21 Issue 1

Business information on CD‐ROM: the Datext service at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

James Fries, Jonathan Brown

The Feldberg (business studies) Library at Dartmouth College has, since January 1986, been subscribing to Datext, a CD‐ROM database containing bibliographic, textual, and numeric…

Planning and producing an interactive video package

Nancy Hammond

The planning and production phases of the project Interactive Video on Microcomputers in Libraries were funded jointly by the British Library Research & Development Department…

The online public access catalogue in DOBIS/LIBIS

Caryl McAllister

The DOBIS/LIBIS OPAC has been in active use at a number of installations for several years. Before describing the OPAC, this paper briefly describes the development and design of…

A microcomputer‐based book acquisition system in India using dBASE II

L.J. Haravu, P.S. Jadhav, R. Sreeramana

This paper describes the general and functional criteria used in designing the book acquisition system at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‐Arid Tropics in…

A library computing strategy for the future: a personal view from Lancaster University

Ian S. Richardson

Lancaster University was a pioneer in library automation in the early 1970s. The last ten years have seen a consolidation of these early systems, a change to a more effective…

The National Acquisitions Group

Mary Morley

At a conference organised by the Council of Polytechnic Librarians Acquisitions Group in 1985, the need for a single and more generally based organisation was debated. Such a body…

Serials Management System (SMS): a short description of a Dawson Group product

John Cowley

The Dawson Group, with its large and varied customer base and over 500,000 periodical subscriptions, entered the automation sector in 1972 with a Singer System, which allowed a…