Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 30 Issue 1

Towards distributed library systems: Z39.50 in a European context

Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell, John Kirriemuir

Z39.50 is an information retrieval protocol. It has generated much interest but is so far little deployed in UK systems and services. This article gives a functional overview of…

The use of information technology in special libraries in the UK

Karen L. Furness, E Margaret, Graham

A survey undertaken during August and September 1994 examined the use of IT in 170 libraries and information units in the corporate, government and medical sectors. Ninety‐five…

Hypermedia library guides for academic libraries on the World Wide Web

Andrew Cox

A new vehicle for user instruction in academic libraries could be a hypertext library guide distributed on the World Wide Web. This article considers the advantages of an…

Short communications

Pradeepa Wijetunge

CDS/ASIS is a software package designed for storage and retrieval of structured textual information. CDS/ISIS was produced by Unesco and there are users in almost all countries…

Report on the 1995 UKOLN International Conference: Networking and the Future of Libraries

Mary Steele

The 1995 UKOLN International Conference was held at the University of Bath from 19–21 April 1995 on the theme: Managing the intellectual record. In the opening welcome to the…

An automatic index generation and information retrieval system for bibliographic databases developed at the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre

M. Kulkarn, V.K. Gupta, T. Viswanathan

Information processing is concerned with the representation, storage, organisation and access of data. In the case of online databases, one expects that the information should be…