Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 1995

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 1995

Online music symbol retrieval from the access angle.(includes sample questionnaire)
March 1, 1995... The symbols for sharp and flat in music notation present special problems for the retrieval of music materials from online catalogs. The authors surveyed music technical services librarians to determine how these retrieval problems are dealt with...

Access to information in both CitaDel and FirstSearch: a comparative study of dissertation coverage.
March 1, 1995... Theses and dissertations submitted to universities and colleges in the United States are accessible in many different formats and through many different vendors. Electronic access is provided by such vendors as DIALOG, BRS, FirstSearch (OCLC),...

Introduction.(Special Section: Library Information Technology Association International Relations Program, Miami Beach, June 1994)
March 1, 1995... As the role of information technology in libraries increases and the ability to communicate globally becomes commonplace, exchanging knowledge about these advances across boundaries is inevitable. An ideal forum for such discussion is within the...

David meets Goliath on the Information Superhighway: Venezuela in the context of the electronic communication networks.(Special Section: Library Information Technology Association International Relations Program, Miami Beach, June 1994)
March 1, 1995... For Latin Americans, information is a resource and an important factor in the creation of wealth. The answers or obstacles to information and electronic communication appropriation are more of a political and socioeconomic nature than of a...

Introduction.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1995... Mountain Lake, Virginia, was the sparkling venue for the Fourth Annual Directors' Conference, which drew more than eighty participants for three days in September. Eight distinguished speakers, whose presentations registered as crisp and clear as...

Digitization and the creation of virtual libraries: the Princeton University image card catalog - reaping the benefits of imaging.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1995... History of the Project An OPAC was installed at Princeton University in the Firestone Libraries in 1981. Approximately six million pre-1981 catalog cards were not converted to the OPAC, but were still very much used. These catalog cards,...

Transforming acquisitions to support virtual libraries.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1995... Libraries are intrinsically involved in the current evolution from paper to digital resources. Printed materials such as books will always be a part of library collections, but the ratio of print to electronic resources will continue to shift...

The virtual library foundation: staff training and support.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1995... Special Note: This article contains references to a number Of online examples of items covered in the article. These may be accessed using World Wide Web client software (such as Lynx or Mosaic) and entering the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)...

Building the foundations of Virginia's virtual library.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1995... In 1993 the directors of the academic libraries of Virginia proposed a budget initiative designed to radically increase the amount of resource sharing by their libraries by building on their history of cooperation through use of new technological...

Cataloging Government Publications Online.
March 1, 1995... A milestone in the cataloging of government publications occurred in 1976 when the Government Printing Office (GPO) began standard cataloging of documents in the MARC format using OCLC to compile the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government...

Finding It on the Internet: The Essential Guide to Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, WWW (Including Mosaic), and Other Search and Browsing Tools.
March 1, 1995... Paul Gilster, author of The Internet Navigator, has written a very useful guide to searching for information on the Internet. Once one has gained access to the Internet, knows its basic functions, and has become conversant with them, the question...

Government CD-ROMs: A Practical Guide to Searching Electronic Documents Databases.
March 1, 1995... This Practical Guide is the book all government documents librarians would write if there were only enough time. Maxymuk and eleven other librarians have succeeded in delivering "a practical, hands-on approach to a variety of popular and useful...

Libraries as User-Centered Organizations: Imperatives for Organizational Change.
March 1, 1995... The sixteen contributors to this volume speak to the profound economic, demographic, technological, publishing, and management trends causing organizational change in institutions of higher education and their research libraries. The thrusts of...

Publishing in the Information Age: A New Management Framework for the Digital Era.
March 1, 1995... In order to facilitate the emergence of the new Information Age publisher in the digital era, the author posits a new management framework around what he describes as the seven M's of publishing. These are five value-added M's - material, mode,...

Reference Services Planning in the 90s.
March 1, 1995... Rarely is it a compliment to a book to say that it reads like a textbook. In the case of Reference Services Planning in the 90s, it is indeed meant as one. Gail Eckwright and Lori Keenan have edited a book that is equally interesting and relevant...

The Internet Business Book.
March 1, 1995... Major sections of this primer include "The Internet: What It Is, and How to Get Started"; "Creating a Business Presence on the Internet"; "Internet Tools and Resources, Doing Business on the Internet"; and "Professional and Business Resources on...

Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval: Theory, Practice, and Potential.
March 1, 1995... Few writings on library technical services today can lay claim to completeness without dealing with the changes still to come. In this excellent contribution to the literature on subject headings and subject searching in online catalogs,...

BookWorm Electronic Book Reader.(CD-ROM anthologies After the Fire and Making the Modern) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1995... Because of its capacity to store and quickly search huge amounts of data, compact disc has found a niche in trade catalogs, bibliographic databases, and, more recently, encyclopedias. With its ability to link disparate information and multimedia...

McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.(electronic reference) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1995... The McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (MEST) is an electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (7th ed.) and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (5th ed.). NEST...