Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 33 Issue 3

Redesigning finding aids at the Public Record Office

Meg Sweet, David Thomas, Bill Stockting, Matthew Hillyard, Derek Breeden

Until March 1998 the most “high‐tech” access to a significant Public Record Office (PRO) finding aid was via irregularly produced microfiches. By January 2001 the full catalogue…

Widening the SCOPE: Higher Education Resources ON‐demand (HERON)

Helen Pickering, David McMenemy

The Scottish Collaborative On‐demand Publishing Enterprise (SCOPE) was a project funded from 1995 to 1998 as part of the UK’s Electronic Libraries (eLib) programme. SCOPE was…

ARCHON and the indexes to the National Register of Archives: past, present and future

Ian Mortimer

The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, currently funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the UK, has been in existence since 1869. Its terms of reference…