Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 25 Issue 4

Library automation at the University of Oxford

Tom Crawshaw

A brief history of the libraries in Oxford University is given, followed by a review of progress towards comprehensive library automation from the early 1960s. This includes a…

Downloading and reformatting external records for researchers' personal databases

Rolf E. Tönsing

This paper examines the problem many researchers experience of having to spend much time rekeying records obtained from external online and CD‐ROM databases into their own…

Searching The Times, The Guardian and The Independent on CD‐ROM

Frank Ryan

The full‐text of the major UK quality newspapers — The Times and Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Independent and The Independent on Sunday — was published in CD‐ROM form in…

MARC catalogues of early‐printed books at the University of Kent

David Shaw

This contribution brings up‐to‐date an earlier article describing a computer‐based catalogue of early‐printed books in Canterbury Cathedral Library. New facilities described…

Interfacing dBase III+ and PageMaker in the production of a publication‐quality bibliographic index

Goff Sargent, Ann O'Brien

A method for the automated preparation of a publication‐quality author and subject index to students' dissertations is described. A datafile of bibliographic data with up to five…

Developments in Intel Processor Based PCs

Eric Flower

During the 1990s the modern library will continue its transformation into a centre for networked information as our current reliance on inhouse collections gives way to access to…

Using a local area network in the Group Business Library of the Midland Group to provide a one‐stop reference point

Olivia J. Freeman

Computers are an intrinsic part of the working environment at the Midland Bank's Group Business Library (GBL) and have been used by library staff for the past seven years for…

A microcomputer‐based alternative to a printed KWOC index

Julian R. Brock

This short communication describes how a printed KWOC index generated on a mainframe computer has been replaced with a database which can be distributed on floppy discs and…

A report on the Microlib '91 conference in Lisbon

Lucy A. Tedd

The first Microlib conference was held in 1988 and some of the papers presented there appeared in subsequent issues of Program. The second Microlib conference was held at the same…