Information Technology and Libraries articles from June 1993

Information Technology and Libraries archives from June 1993

Editorial: the literate librarian. (Editorial)
June 1, 1993... Early this year we received a newspaper clipping with a note attach to it--a letter to the editor, in fact--from Nancy Sosnik of Raleigh North Carolina. The letter appears in this issues's "Letters to the Editor" section,but we want to draw...

Selecting electronic alternatives. (to printed indexes in academic libraries)
June 1, 1993... Academic libraries today are faced with the prospect Of numerous alternatives to traditional printed indexes to the primary literature. Not only are many indexes made available by publishers as CD-ROM products, but most of these products can be...

Optical storage and retrieval of library material.
June 1, 1993... The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library and Technical Information Center of the Naval Research Laboratory has installed an optical disk system consisting of a Sony autochanger, Sun minicomputer, Sun workstations, TDC scanners, printers, personal...

The three T's for a talking online catalog: technology, teamwork, teaching.
June 1, 1993... With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, there is a renewed emphasis on library collection accessibility for persons with disabilities. Modem computer technology can be adapted so that visually impaired or blind people...

Improved browsable displays: an experimental test. (online catalog and electronic index displays)
June 1, 1993... Browse searching of online catalogs and electronic indexes is a popular means of retrieving information, but some subject heading lists are so extensive that browsing them can be difficult and time consuming. This research tested one way of...

Toward the new millennium: the human side of library automation (revisited).
June 1, 1993... The purpose of this paper is to reexamine some of the human factors of human-machine system from an individual and organizational behavior stand point, particularly as they relate to the automation of libraries. Rather than emphasizing the...

On the shoulders of giants: from Boole to Shannon to Taube: the origins of computerized information from the mid-19th century to the present. (George Boole; Claude Shannon; Mortimer Taube)
June 1, 1993... This article describes the evolvement of computerized information storage and retrieval, from its beginnings in the theoretical works on logic by George Boole in the mid-nineteenth century, to the application of Boole's logic to switching...

RLG's Z39.50 server: development and implementation issues. (Research Libraries Group) (Special Section: Z39.50 - Two Perspectives)
June 1, 1993... In 1991 and 1992, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) developed a server that implements the main features of ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50-1992, Information Retrieval Service and Protocol. The Z39.50 server allows users of other computers that run...

Z39.50 and LIAS: Penn State's experience. (Library Information Access System) (Special Section: Z39.50 - Two Perspectives)
June 1, 1993... Pennsylvania State University's experience in developing and implementing Z39.50 into LIAS is explored in this article. The emphasis is on development and implementation issues from the client's point of view, including mapping commands into...

The Blacksburg Electronic Village: a field of dreams. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... For several years visionaries have proposed that if community networks were built, citizens would quickly assimilate them into their daily life cycles, and the world of networked information would explode with a vitality that would quickly...

Accessing multimedia information in virtual libraries. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... In the introduction to his book The Work of Nations, Robert B. Reich states, "We are living through a transformation that will rearrange arrange the politics and the economics of the coming century. There will be no national products or...

Multimedia in the classroom. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... Diana Oblinger's presentation focused on multimedia in the classroom. The conference attendees learned through Oblinger's demonstration how professors use multimedia in teaching subjects such as French, chemistry, and American history. She...

The virtual library: a corporate imperative. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... In her presentation, Eugenie Prime defined the virtual library and reviewed her observations regarding its evolution and importance to users of information. She touched upon both the librarian's role as an information professional and the...

The changing infrastructure for information distribution. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... In this brief talk I will define four moving targets that the industry is tracking, present some background for the evolving network infrastructure, discuss three opportunities and challenges that I believe are arising from the evolving...

The future online catalog: a single view of multiple databases. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... In his presentation, Walt Crawford gave an overview of present and future trends in OPAC design, campuswide and remote access, the impact of standards, different needs of different libraries, and new ideas in searching and presentation. ...

Legislative review on NREN and perspectives on home access. (National Research and Education Network) (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference)
June 1, 1993... I am pleased to have been asked again to address the VTLS library Directors' Conference. At the inaugural conference last September, I spoke about the goals and purposes of the High-Performance Computing Act, which was then nearing final...

Creating the future with the initiators of change: a panel discussion with Frank Bridge, Walt Crawford, Bob Heterick, and Peter Young, moderated by Vinod Chachra. (Special Section: Second Annual Library Directors' Conference) (Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1993... The following is a summary of what the panel members view as the most pressing challenges facing the information and library professions today. After the discussions the session was opened for questions from the participants to the panel...

Simple and expensive CD-ROM networking: a step-by-step approach.
June 1, 1993... Many librarians, especially those at smaller institutions, are intimidated by the prospect of installing a CD-ROM network. Networks are reputed to cost too much and to require someone on staff with considerable technical expertise to install...

SALBIN: PC software for accessing Internet resources.
June 1, 1993... JANET, INTERNET AND SALBIN November 1991 was an important time for libraries in the United Kingdom. For the first time it became possible to gain direct access to the vast information community known as the Internet. During this month...

Filtering out noise lines from OPAC downloads with sed. (online public access catalog)
June 1, 1993... Internet access to other libraries'online catalogs has provided patrons and librarians alike with rich bibliographic data beyond the home institution's online public access catalog (OPAC). Users who know that a particular institution has strong...

Advances in Library Resource Sharing, vol. 3.
June 1, 1993... This annual compendium of papers addressing resource sharing issues covers a wide variety of topics grouped into five sections: perspectives on resource sharing, collection development models, technology and resource sharing, copyright, and...

DOS 5.0 for libraries.
June 1, 1993... In existence since 1981, DOS remains the world's most commonly used microcomputer operating system. There is every indication that it will continue to hold the lead for some time. Therefore, it behooves all but the most casual user of personal...

Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto.
June 1, 1993... With its provocative title and enticing foreword (by Michael Gorman), this manifesto, which promises to be both "visionary and practical" (p. v), aroused my strong interest. Indeed, ALA's publicity release about this book noted that "no one...

CD-ROM Market Place 1992: An International Guide to the CD-ROM, CD-I, CDTV and Electronic Book Industry.
June 1, 1993... While the road to a comprehensive source of corporate information on the CD-ROM industry has been a long one, the journey is not yet ended. Back in 1987, Learned Information's Optical Publishing Directory listed companies under three...

Classification Research for Knowledge Representation and Organization: Proceedings of the 5th International Study Conference on Classification Research, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 1991.
June 1, 1993... The function of classification is "to order documents... in a sequence which can be understood by users and which actively helps to promote their thinking about their subjects" (Foskett, quoted by Wilson, p. 389). Yet the contents of this book...

Managing Library Automation, 2d ed.
June 1, 1993... This work, an update of a book published in 1987, is intended to provide a guide to the most important issues in library automation for librarians and information workers. Chapter titles are "Planning for Automation"; "Hardware and the Library...

The Online Catalog Book: Essays and Examples.
June 1, 1993... Crawford's third book about online catalogs is an excellent resource for anyone involved in the design, implementation, or selection of an OPAC. Part I contains Crawford's own essays about issues in catalog design. Part 2 consists of...

CD-ROM Periodical Index: A Guide to Abstracted, Indexed, and Fulltext Periodicals on CD-ROM.
June 1, 1993... Ensor and Hardin set out to list "all the periodicals indexed, abstracted, or carried fulltext by certain research-oriented CD-ROMS" (p.vii). More than 30,000 periodicals are listed from seventy-nine major CD-ROM databases. This book expands...

ERIC Identifier Authority List (IAL): 1992.
June 1, 1993... The ERIC Identifier Authority List (IAL) 1992 continues the IAL first published in 1980 as an effort to add depth and expansion to ERIC searching and indexing. The 1980 IAL contained 25,000 identifiers, while the 1992 IAL contains more than...

DYNIX: A Guide for Librarians and System Managers.
June 1, 1993... The title of the book is perfectly descriptive: It is a comprehensive overview of the Dynix integrated library system, with copious illustrations of command options, menus, and specimen record displays. Every significant Dynix command is...

Information Sources in Patents.
June 1, 1993... Ever since a 1474 Venetian statute established the importance and necessity of protecting inventors' rights and thus articulated the concept of intellectual property, debate over the law's usefulness has occurred across both ends of the...

101 Uses of LOTUS in Libraries.
June 1, 1993... This volume updates and expands the author's previous book on Lotus, Using Lotus 1-2-3: A How-to-Do-It Manual For Library Applications. In this new book, Machalow details 101 ways Lotus can be used to handle library functions such as budget,...

Macintoshed Libraries 5.
June 1, 1993... This book is the fifth edition of a popular series of books that describes innovative library applications using the Macintosh computer. Editor Edward Valauskas characterizes the sixteen case studies as adventures "where imagination triumphs"...

The Application of Expert Systems in Libraries and Information Systems Centres.
June 1, 1993... Expert Systems (ES) seem a marvelous panacea for the overworked librarian, but the fact is few are in operation today, and these seem to work best when developed and used for a specific purpose. The technology is still at an evolutionary stage...

Retrospective Conversion: History, Approaches, Considerations.
June 1, 1993... This book, also published as volume 14, numbers 3 and 4, of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, consists of a collection of papers edited and introduced by Brian Schottlaender. The work is divided into four sections: History, Case Studies,...

Change and Challenge in Library and Information Science Education.
June 1, 1993... This book addresses the continuing debate about the scope and quality of education for schools with ALA-accredited programs. Librarianship, information science, and archival administration are the focus of this overview of issues. One of the...

Virtual Worlds, Real Challenges: Papers from SRI's 1991 Conference on Virtual Reality.
June 1, 1993... For most people, virtual reality begins and ends with war games, where teams use high technology to do battle. There is another, more serious side though, one presented in Virtual Worlds, a collection of papers delivered at a conference...

Pro-Cite for the Macintosh. (Evaluation)
June 1, 1993... Pro-Cite, now in version 2.1, is probably the most powerful personal bibliographic database management system available for the Macintosh. Others can be found that are cheaper and simpler to use, but these are generally called reference...

UNIX for (almost) any Macintosh. (Evaluation)
June 1, 1993... MachTen Kernel System Software, by Tenon Intersystems, offers a port of the BSD 4.3 Reno version of the UNIX operating system for Macintoshes ranging from the Plus to the Quadra. Instead of taking over as the operating system of the Macintosh,...