Information Technology and Libraries articles from December 1994

Information Technology and Libraries archives from December 1994

Library Card Sign-up Month. (Editorial)
December 1, 1994... The American Library Association is asking editors of its journals to run a canned editorial touting September as Library Card Sign-up Month 1994. As this editorial is being written it is already September, and this issue of the journal won't...

The future of scientific journals: lessons from the past.
December 1, 1994... New technologies will soon bring fundamental changes to the process of scientific communication. To understand the path that these changes may take in the future, we need to take a careful look at the past. By examining the history of...

The people speak: the dispersion and impact of technology in American libraries.
December 1, 1994... What is the status of technological applications in American libraries? How much "technology" do most libraries of all types and sizes really have? Does the literature, which delineates many success stories, accurately represent the status of...

Barcoding as a tool for collection use analysis: a pilot project. (library collection use)(includes bibliography)
December 1, 1994... This article discusses the value of having information on how in-house use only collections are used when making collection development and maintenance decisions. It describes a pilot project in which the feasibility of using barcoding as a...

The expert cataloging assistant project at the National Library of Medicine.
December 1, 1994... Over the last few years, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has pursued the development of an expert system to assist catalogers with personal name authority work. This article reviews the project, from project and tool selection through...

Library of the Future, 2d edition: 950 literary titles on one CD-ROM. (Software Review) (Evaluation)
December 1, 1994... World Library, Inc., 12914 Haster St., Garden Grove, CA 92640; 1-800-443-0238. System Requirements for DOS: IBM PC XT, AT, or 386 or compatible with 640K of memory, a hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive with CD-ROM drivers (MS-DOS extensions 2.0 or...

The Chronicle Guide to Grants Evaluation. (Evaluation)
December 1, 1994... Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255 Twenty-Third St. N.W., Washington, DC 20037; orders 1-800-287-6072, technical help (202) 466-7220. Price for one-year subscription: disk version $295; CD-ROM version $395. Networking pricing is available....

The Art of Indexing.
December 1, 1994... It has been said that "truth in advertising" is an oxymoron, but what the author and his publishers present to the prospective reader in the title borders on the actionable. The book is not just on indexing (let alone any art of it); it is not...

Internet Access Providers: An International Resource Directory.
December 1, 1994... Over the past two years, numerous entrepreneurial businesses and organizations have begun marketing economical Internet access through dial-up service. Targeted primarily to individual computer users rather than to organizations, these dial-up...

Internet: Mailing Lists.
December 1, 1994... Ed. Edward T. L. Hardie and Vivian Neou. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1993. 582p. paper, $29 (ISBN 0-13-289661-3). This volume in the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Internet Information Series is a useful reference tool for...

The PC Internet Tour Guides: Cruising the Internet the Easy Way.
December 1, 1994... The PC Internet Tour Guide, addressed to the novice home user, answers basic questions, offers detailed procedures, and provides helpful software especially useful to this audience. Presented in an appealing and nonintimidating format, the book...

Voodoo Unix: Mastery Tips and Masterful Tricks.
December 1, 1994... This is an easy-to-read book in a format that presents each major topic as a "tip" and problems as "traps." There are a great many useful tips in this book, but despite the book's subtitle, Mastery Tips & Masterful Tricks, much of the book is...