Information Technology and Libraries articles from March 1996

Information Technology and Libraries archives from March 1996

Developign Eureka: rapid access to very large databases.
March 1, 1996... As RLG's first foray into end-user searching, Eureka's design draws on extensive study of online catalog practices and on advice from librarians and feedback from users. The service was designed so that untrained users without printed...

INFOMINE - a model Web-based academic virtual library.
March 1, 1996... INFOMINE is a World Wide Web virtual library which provides indexing, annotations and links to Internet resources of scholarly use to the academic community. Thousands of Internet resources covering most major disciplines are present. A custom...

Evaluation and support of Internet software.
March 1, 1996... The Internet has introduced dramatic changes to the nature of library and information services. As network use increases, libraries must determine which Internet software to obtain for computers in order to explore and utilize the network, and...

Advancing your library through high technology: he who hesitates is lost; or fools rush in where angels fear to tread.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1996... The Library of Virginia has initiated several digitization projects that will soon provide new, more modern ways to find research materials in the library's extensive collections. The new finding aids and databases of images use technologies in...

Collection management in light of electronic publishing. (library collection management)(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1996... In Virginia we have been doing a lot of rethinking about higher education in the last several years. There is a general restructuring going on. Many programs in higher education are being examined, with the intent of focusing our goals and...

Public services in a telecommuting world. (library services)(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1996... Society today is amidst profound change, change of a political, social, economic, and technological nature, change in educational and cultural institutions, change that is affecting everything. And the changes underway in the information...

What to expect from library school graduates.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1996... What to expect from library school graduates is an interesting topic. Ten years ago I could have told you with some certainty. Today, I am not so certain because library education is no longer as homogeneous as it once was. When I attended the...

Retraining librarians to met the needs of the virtual library patron.(Special Section: VTLS Proceedings)
March 1, 1996... Training represents a conventional method for providing a necessary set of understandings to individuals and groups which have new responsibilities or require new or updated understandings of some sort. The assigned topic for this paper...