Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 1994

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 1994

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities. (includes related articles on the Text Encoding Initiative and Standing Generalized Markup Language)
March 1, 1994... The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established jointly by Princeton University and Rutgers University in 1991 to provide a national focus for the development, dissemination, and use of electronic texts in the humanities. The...

"A library and apparatus of every kind": the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
March 1, 1994... The Electronic Text Center at the Univesity of Virginia combines an online archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts, all available through a single piece of search software, with a library-based center housing hardware and software...

Building the digital library: the University of Michigan's UMLibText Project.
March 1, 1994... Over the past decade, new data formats and new tools have emerged that hold the promise of greatly enhancing the resources available to scholars. The UMLibText initiative is one of several evolving projects designed to provide expanded and/or...

The 'Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities': cataloging and access.
March 1, 1994... The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Huamities was established in 1983 as a reference tool to help avoid duplication of effort for scholars and teachers in the humanities who want to use electronic texts in their work. The...

Poststructuralism and the ARTFUL database: some theoretical considerations. (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
March 1, 1994... In order to attract new scholars to computers in the humanities, some researchers suggest that poststructuralist theories should inform how one queries textual databases. This paper argues that if we adopt a poststructuralist methodology to...

Electronic texts in the humanities: a selected bibliography. (Bibliography)
March 1, 1994... This is a suggested reference and reading list, whose purpose it to provide librarians with a bibilography of basic sources for understanding how scholars in the humanities use electronic texts and computer-based methods of analysis, for...

'Jurassic Park' and Al Jolson: thinking about the information revolution. (Connie Willis address) (Special Section: Future Possibilities in Information Technology and Access) (Transcript)
March 1, 1994... A couple of weeks ago I was on a panel about the information revolution, and we were talking about electronic publishing and computer graphics. And Jurassic Park. I had a lot to say. I have been working on a short novel, called Still...

The good and the bad: outlines of tomorrow. (David Brin address) (Special Section: Future Possibilities in Information Technology and Access) (Transcript)
March 1, 1994... Recently, I read a newspaper report of great interest to a new parent like me. A firm known as California Technology Enterprise Corporation is marketing an innovative gizmo--a spinoff of high-tech defense hardware--which they call "Beeper Kid,"...

Mapping 1990 census data.
March 1, 1994... Depository libraries can now receive electronic data products from the Bureua of the Census. Included in this category are the Summary Tape Files from the 1990 Census, the 1987 Economic Census, County Business Patterns, as well as TIGER, the...

MachTen 2.1: UNIX for Macintosh. (operating system) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
March 1, 1994... Tenon Intersystems, 1123 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963-6983; fax (805) 962-8202; Internet info@tenon.com. System requirements: Macintosh Classic or better. The reviewer recommends a 68030 processor or accelerator board. At...

Microsoft Encarta. (multimedia electronic publication) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
March 1, 1994... Microsoft Corporation, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399; 1-800-426-9400. Hardware and software requirements for playing sound, running animations, and displaying text and graphics: multimedia PC with 386SX or higher processor, 2 MB RAM...

Buyers and Borrowers: The Application of Consumer Theory to the Study of Library Use.
March 1, 1994... Initially intended to be a test of the old saw "engineers do not use libraries," this work, happily, grew into much more. Applying consumer theroy to library users is a unique and enlightening approach to borrower patterns, and Emery has done...

CD-ROM Buyer's Guide and Handbook: The Definitive Reference for CD-ROM Buyers, 3d ed.
March 1, 1994... Three features make this book a valuable reference tool: the reputation and expertise of the author, a thorough treatment of the subject, and the additions and revisions contained in the new edition. Paul T. Nicholls, a professor of library and...

The Electronic Journal: The Future of Serials-Based Information.
March 1, 1994... These seven papers were first presented during a one-day seminar at Bond University in Australia in May 1992 and were subsequently published as volume 3, number 2 of the Australian & New Zealan Journal of Serials Librarianship, as well as the...

Format Integration and Its Effect on Cataloging, Training, and Systems.
March 1, 1994... This publication is based on papers presented at an ALCTS preconference on format integration held during the 1992 ALA Annual Conference. In the introduction, editor Karen Coyle indicates that papers have been altered to make them appropriate...

Interfaces: Relationships Between Library Technical and Public Services.
March 1, 1994... This is a highly readable and thought-provoking book on library technical services in an era of information revolution. Intner has rewritten and updated her columns for Technicalities and collected them under one cover. Each of the almost forty...

Library and Information Center Management, 4th ed.
March 1, 1994... "A decision is a judgment. It is a choice between alternatives. It is rarely a choice betwene right and wrong. It is at best a choice between 'almost right' and 'probably wrong'" [p. 60]. This quote from peter F. Drucker is one of many in...

Planning Second Generation Automated Library Systems.
March 1, 1994... Planning Second Generation Automated Library Systems is aimed at library systems analysts, automated system administrators, information managers, consultant, and advanced students specializing in library automation. The authors say they assume...

Preservation in Libraries: Principles, Strategies and Practices for Librarians.
March 1, 1994... In the forward to Preservation in Libraries: Principles, Strategies and Practices for Librarians, the general editors state that the author has given a "framework for further reflection on the problems of preservation and for research into...

Preservation in Libraries: A Reader.
March 1, 1994... In the forward to Preservation in Libraries: Principles, Strategies and Practices for Librarians, the generawl editors state that the author has given a "framework for further reflection on the problems of preservation and for research into...

Records Management and the Library: Issues and Practices.
March 1, 1994... Records Management and the Library defines records management for information professionals who are required or wish to take on duties in this field. Written and compiled by two faculty members at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library...

Serials Cataloging: Modern Perspectives and International Development.
March 1, 1994... Cole and Williams describe this work as an attempt to document the major issues of concern to serials catalogers in the early 1990s. It consists of twenty-three papers divided into four sections: "Education and Training"; "Cataoging Practice,...

Central European Conference and Exhibition for Academic Libraries and Informatics.
March 1, 1994... On September 27-29, 1993, the Central European Conference and Exhibitionntral for Academic Libraries and Informatics was held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, with more than four hundred attendees. The Lithuanian Librarians'...

NCLIS plans survey of public libraries and Internet. (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science)
March 1, 1994... The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) has announced plan sto survey public library involvement with Internet, the global computer network of networks. Quick-response sample survey will be conducted in early...

RLIN Records Task Force: institutional perspectives on RLIN - summary of responses. (Research Libraries Information Network)(includes related information on number of titles in RLIN data base)
March 1, 1994... As part of its charge to make recommendations on the form and content of the RLIN bibliographic files and ways to expedite record contributions, the RLIN Records Task Force distributed a brief survey to all RLG member representatives and the...

OCLC Users Council discusses "bibliographic commons." (Online Computer Library Center)
March 1, 1994... The OCLC Users Council met October 10-12, 1993, to discuss a topic of common interest to those who contribute to and use the OCLC Online Union Catalog--the Bibliographic Commons. "The Bibliographic Commons and Beyond: Electronic Publishing...