Heritage IV: new system installation at Central School of Speech and DramaEmerald - Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 24-33 - 1999
J.Adam Edwards
Central School of Speech and Drama is an HEFCE funded specialist theatre college in north London. The move to a new library in the summer of 1997 gave us the space and the network to upgrade from our old CAIRS system. The article describes how we chose Inheritance Systems Heritage IV and some of the useful facilities the system offers.
What's cooking at the NHM?Emerald - Tập 27 Số 3 - Trang 16-20 - 1997
MalcolmBeasley
The Natural History Museum's Department of Library and Information Services has been developing a pilot image database using iBase software. This personal assessment of progress considers the pitfalls encountered and problems associated with numerous practical issues, such as image capture, layout and output requirements, compliance with standards, and database stability.
Counting on making a difference: assessing our impactEmerald - - 2004
PhilipPayne, JohnCrawford, WendyFiander
Purpose. Ten libraries across the UK are participating in the first phase of an initiative to assess the impact of higher education libraries on learning, teaching, and research. The initiative is being undertaken under the auspices of the Library and Information Research Group and the Society of College, National, and University Libraries. This interim report pr...... hiện toàn bộ
Managing networked information resources more effectively: CandleEmerald - Tập 28 Số 3 - Trang 22-29 - 1998
RobinYeates, AndrewCox
This article describes some of the design ideas being developed in the European Commission co‐funded Candle project. Our aim in the project is to design a tool for libraries to manage access to electronic resources, particularly electronic journals. In the article we describe the Candle system, features of which will be: role based access control, single sign on, services to remote users, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Vine Volume 5 Issue 1 1975Emerald - Tập 5 Số 1 - Trang 1-43 - 1975
VINE is a Very Informal Newsletter produced three or four times a year by the Information Officer for Library Automation and financed by the British Library Research and Development Department. It is issued free of charge on request to interested librarians, systems staff and library college lecturers. VINE'S objective is to provide an up‐to‐date picture of work being done in U.K. library ...... hiện toàn bộ
Security in libraries: authentication & authorisation and Radio Frequency IdentificationEmerald - Tập 28 Số 3 - Trang 3-8 - 1998
AndrewCox
The most inspiring ideal of librarianship, embodied in the public library service is of free access to information for all. On the face of it security is part of the more niggardly side of library work, conjuring up images of closed access shelves and books on chains. In practice of course making sure one user does not steal or damage books is essential to guarantee access to the next user...... hiện toàn bộ
The Centre for Retrospective Digitisation at Göttingen University LibraryEmerald - Tập 27 Số 3 - Trang 39-43 - 1997
NorbertLossau
Intent on creating a distributed national digital library, the German Research Foundation has funded Göttingen University Library's establishment of a Centre for Retrospective Digitisation of library materials. The Centre is engaged in evaluation of tools and techniques for image capture and text conversion, bibliographic description, document management and the provision of remote access....... hiện toàn bộ
My life since VINEEmerald - Tập 25 Số 3 - Trang 10-10 - 1995
PhilBramall
Phil was the second VINE editor, responsible for producing issues 8 to 18. He has since left libraries and library automation and is now working with the charity Traidcraft. However, on hearing that VINE had reached 100 and of the plans for this issue, he sent his best wishes for the next hundred issues together with the following biographical notes which I'm sure will interest all his for...... hiện toàn bộ
East Sussex County Library's implementation of URICAEmerald - - 1988
East Sussex are noted pioneers in library automation: they were the original users of BL (then BNB) cataloguing data under the BRIMARC project in 1974 and have also been running a Plessey hard‐wired circulation system since the very early 70s. It says something for the endurability of these systems that it was not until late 1986 that East Sussex's second generation system was installed; t...... hiện toàn bộ