Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 1 1991

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 1 1991

Automatically generated references in minimal-level authority records.
December 1, 1991... Minimal-level, or provisional, authority records are constructed from the headings contained in bibliographic records, usually as part of a computerized validation process. They typically contain little more information than the heading itself....

Online catalog maintenance: the role of networks, computers, and local institutions.
December 1, 1991... This paper stresses the importance of maintaining the accuracy and currency of the information in an online catalog. The first section discusses aspects of online catalog maintenance that can be accomplished cooperatively, through cataloging...

ALEPH: Israel's research library network: background, evolution, and implications for networking in a small country.
December 1, 1991... ALEPH, Israel's research library network, is described and analyzed with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of its highly decentralized structure. Part one discusses the history, structure, and format of ALEPH. The centralized versus the...

A report on the loading of MARC format bibliographic records into HyperCard.
December 1, 1991... This paper outlines a process for downloading MARC format bibliographic data into a form readable for an Apple Macintosh computer running HyperCard software. Loading procedures for two data sources, an OCLC format tape and records captured from...

Multimedia Visualizer: an animated, object-based OPAC. (online public access catalog)
December 1, 1991... This paper describes the Multimedia Visualizer, an animated, object-based OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) for library automation. Using the Multimedia Visualizer, library patrons can access an electronic library through a collection of 2-D...

Desktop publishing choices: making an appropriate decision.
December 1, 1991... My title is "Desktop Publishing Choices: Making an Appropriate Decision." For many of you, the choices are obvious. If you want to make pretty pages, buy Aldus PageMaker - for the PC or the Mac. If you want to produce effective publications,...

Public libraries in 2001. (Special Section: OCLC Users' Council Presentations, June 3, 1991, Dublin, Ohio)
December 1, 1991... In thirty minutes I am supposed to tell you everything I know and think about the library of the future. In that amount of time the best I can really do is skip the rock across the pond and hit some high points that I think are relevant to what...

Delivering on promises: the intersection of print and electronic information systems in libraries. (Special Section: OCLC Users' Council Presentations, June 3, 1991, Dublin, Ohio)
December 1, 1991... Being asked to discuss electronic information control and delivery issues and how they might affect the library of 2001 is a little bit like being asked to discuss the meaning of life. It is a big, complicated, and confusing topic. I have heard...

Libraries in the year 2001. (Special Section: OCLC Users' Council Presentations, June 3, 1991, Dublin, Ohio)
December 1, 1991... When asked to talk about libraries in the year 2001, my first reaction was that ten years are not enough to make much of a difference. Then I thought about where my library was ten years ago. In 1981 I had just bought my third Texas Instruments...

Beyond the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access.
December 1, 1991... The editors stated that the purpose of this collection of essays is to "sample the current thinking to MARC to provide the vessel are turning to MARC to provide the vessel for their data collection." The samples provided explore the particulars...

CD-ROM Information Products: An Evaluative Guide and Directory, vol. 1.
December 1, 1991... With the proliferation of CD-ROM titles, no single library or institution can hope the evaluate all databases of interest. Some 1,400 commercial titles are available, worldwide, according to the 1991 edition of CD-ROMs in Print. Reviews of...

CD-ROM Local Area Networks: A User's Guide,
December 1, 1991... As indicated in the introduction of this slender book of slightly more than one hundred pages, the installation and implementation of PCs, CD-ROM drives, and software as standalone workstations are a challenge that most librarians can master...

Integrated Online Library Catalogs.
December 1, 1991... The best public speakers both educate and entertain us. These two elements flavor this volume because the eight chapters consist of papers that were presented at a Computers in Libraries conference (March 1989, Oakland, California). The...

Journal of Interlibrary Loan and Information Supply.
December 1, 1991... In the first issue of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan & Information Supply, editor Leslie Morris states: "Interlibrary loan librarians deserve their own journal. Interlibrary loan is not a subfield of reference services, public services,...

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice.
December 1, 1991... The work under review covers subject indexing and abstracting for printed secondary services and machine-readable databases, excluding book indexing and the indexing of names. The author does not treat thesaurus structure in detail in this text...

Local Area Networks in Libraries.
December 1, 1991... "The authors offer this work based on their experience in local area networking in the library environment." This statement, from the Preface, is a fair summary of the book. The more than one hundred pages of text have chapter titles that might...

MS-DOS Software for Library and Information Applications.
December 1, 1991... Librarians are feeling the urge to automate these days. We have heard discussions of whether this urge arises from some genuine need or some technical "keeping up with the Joneses." However, eve a genuine need for a computer and software to...

Linked Systems for Resource Sharing.
December 1, 1991... This book was written "to help professional librarians faced with planning for, implementing, managing or evaluating linked systems for resource sharing." The author drew on his experience with the development of an automated resource sharing...

BibFiler: bibliography download for INNOPAC. (computer program) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1991... One of the greatest services a library can give its users is the ability to download records from the online catalog using a personal computer. Such a service allows a user to truly customize the library's catalog for their own purposes. Lists...