Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1992

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1992

Music symbols and online catalogs: a survey of vendors and an assessment of retrieval capabilities.
September 1, 1992... The symbols for sharp and flat in music notation occur in the uniform title portions of both bibliographic and authority records. These two symbols present special problems for the retrieval of music materials in online catalogs. The authors...

User practices in keyword and Boolean searching on an online public access catalog.
September 1, 1992... Keyword and Boolean searching modes are now becoming more commonly available on online public access catalogs, and questions have arisen regarding their use by library patrons. How difficult do users perceive these searches to be? Do those who...

Browsing through public access catalogs.
September 1, 1992... Browsing is an important aspect of the information-seeking activities of library users and is primarily visual. Second-generation OPACs lack lack necessary visual characteristics for browsing. These characteristics may be best implemented through...

An examination of unfilled OCLC lending and photocopy requests.
September 1, 1992... Interlibrary Loan Offices can supply documents for only a fraction of the lending requests received (i.e., requests for the loan of a book or photocopy of an article received from another library), despite sophisticated electronic...

The Intelligence Reference Information System project: a merger of CD-ROM LAN and expert system technologies.
September 1, 1992... The University Libraries of the University of Houston created an experimental Intelligent Reference Information System (IRIS) over a two-year period. A ten-workstation CD-ROM LAN was implemented that provided access to nineteen citation,...

Arabic online catalog.
September 1, 1992... The article provides background information on the processing of Arabic materials using a combination of local and modified cataloging rules and the creation of the Arabic card catalog at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Library...

Making shareware available at reserve.
September 1, 1992... Computer software known as shareware may be distributed freely by libraries. A tremendous number of shareware computer programs are available on CD-ROM discs. A shareware workstation can be used to make shareware CD-ROM discs available to library...

Bringing the mountain to Mohammed without falling off the cliff of unmanageable technology.
September 1, 1992... This is the description of one library's trouble and success in creating a customized online service that could bring published medical information to remote locations for physicians, researchers, and clinicians who were often too busy to visit...

Z39.50 and the scholar's workstation concept.
September 1, 1992... This study examines the potential application of the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 library networking protocol as a client/server environment for a "scholar's workstation." As we will see, Z39.50 is well suited to the communication needs of this environment,...

Ten years later: a retrospective prospectus. (Special Section: Happy Birthday to MELVYL, part 2)
September 1, 1992... The invitation to write this article presents an opportunity to revisit prognostications that Clifford Lynch and I made in 1983 in our article "Online Catalogs: Through a Glass Darkly." (1) In that essay we sought to make generalizations and...

MELVYL input ten years later: the changing face of our bibliographic file. (Special Section: Happy Birthday to MELVYL, part 2)
September 1, 1992... Ten years ago, the libraries contributing to the UC union catalog, later to be known as the MELVYL catalog database, were divided into two distinct camps: users of RLG's RLIN system and users of Ohio's OCLC system. The busy folks at DLA thought...

A catalog or a reference tool? Or, MELVYL's exquisite search features you can't know until someone tells you. (Special Section: Happy Birthday to MELVYL, part 2)
September 1, 1992... This article describes a few of the MELVYL system's search features that are not generally known, even to frequent searchers, so that readers can appreciate haw difficult it is to discover these features without being told. The author postulates...

Downloading and printing search results from online databases.
September 1, 1992... The University of Kentucky Medical Center Library is a medium-sized library serving five colleges and a hospital. During the past year the university's main library and its various branches changed automated systems from LS/2000 to NOTIS. In...

Local holdings searching in CD-ROM databases.
September 1, 1992... While CD-ROM technology has enhanced access to periodical indexes, some libraries have felt the need for an optional capability to limit search results to titles represented in the library's local holdings. This tutorial discusses a method for...

Artificial Intelligence: Its Role in the Information Industry.
September 1, 1992... Davies, Peter. Artificial Intelligence: Its Role in the Information Industry. Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1991. 114p. paper, $39.50 (ISBN 0-938734-50-4). In 1988, Peter Davies undertook a study of the role artificial intelligence can...

Adventure Games for Microcomputers: An Annotated Directory of Interactive Fiction.
September 1, 1992... Dewey, Patrick R. Adventure Games for Microcomputers: An Annotated Directory of Interactive Fiction. Westport Conn.: Meckler, 1991. 157p. $49.50 (ISBN 0-88736-411-X). Patrick R. Dewey, author of several books and articles on microcomputers,...

Technical Services in the Medium-sized Library: An Investigation of Current Practices.
September 1, 1992... Intner, Sheila S., and Josephine Riss Fang. Technical Services in the Medium-sized Library: An Investigation of Current Practices. Hamden, Conn.: Library Professional Pubs., 1991. 189p. $35 (ISBN 0-208-02173-6). Building on earlier studies by...

Library Technology for Visually and Physically Impaired Patrons.
September 1, 1992... Mates, Barbara T. Library Technology for Visually and Physically Impaired Patrons. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1991. 190p. $42.50 (ISBN 0-88736-704-6). This book is a wake-up call for libraries and librarians who have paid little or no attention...

Optical Character Recognition: A Librarian's Guide.
September 1, 1992... Ogg, Harold C., and Marlene H. Ogg. Optical Character Recognition: A Librarian's Guide. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1992. 171p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-88736-778-X). This introduction to optical character recognition (OCR) technology, targeted for use in...

Cataloging Motion Pictures and Videorecordings.
September 1, 1992... Olsen, Nancy R. Cataloging Motion Pictures and Videorecordings. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek, 1991. 150p. paper, $25 (ISBN 0-936996-38-2). This book is a basic "how-to" manual for cataloging motion pictures and videorecordings, and is...

Search Sheets for OPACs on the Internet: A Selective Guide to U.S. OPACs Utilizing VT100 Emulation.
September 1, 1992... Search Sheets for OPACs on the Internet: A Selective Guide to U.S. OPACs utilizing VT100 Emulation. Ed. by Marcia Klinger Henry, Linda Keenan, and Michael Reagan. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1991. 175p. $39.95 (ISBN 0-88736-767-4). This guide to...

Automating the Library with askSam: A Practical Handbook.
September 1, 1992... Talley, Marcia D. and Virginia A. McNih. Automating the Library with askSam: A Practical Handbook. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1991. 184p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-88736-801-8). Judging from recent activity on the LIBRARY electronic bulletin board...

Library Cooperation and Networks: A Basic Reader.
September 1, 1992... Woodsworth, Anne, with the assistance of Thomas B. Wall. Library Cooperation and Networks: A Basic Reader. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1991. 208p. $39.95 (ISBN 1-55570-088-8). This work deals broadly with most aspects of current interlibrary...

Lesko's Info-Power.
September 1, 1992... Lesko, Matthew. Lesko's Info-Power. Ed. by Andrew Naprawa. Kensington, Md.: Information USA, Inc., 1990. 1,085p. $33.95 plus $5 P&H. Diskette version, $59.95. Available from Infobusiness Inc., 887 S. Orem Blvd., Suite B, Orem, UT 840585009....