Just in time economics regulate the data race
New complexities and tight budgets will force libraries to embrace full automation, Tony Durham argues. Not all the changes occurring in libraries can be explained by technology push. As far as...
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Gold-darned predictions
The Environmental Change Unit at Oxford University have won a top award for a project aimed at extracting "nuggets of data" from large databases. The unit suggested using Clementine software to "data...
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Green light in Glamorgan
Environment activist and Greenpeace supporter, computer studies undergraduate Wayne Putterill appears to have found the right spot for publicising his local society and Greenpeace internationally....
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Content with a starring role
Lucy Hodges finds former library schools, such as that at Sheffield, are transforming students into information navigators. Forget your image of the librarian as someone who humps books around and...
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Bells and whistles for the wedding march
Debby Raven argues that campus libraries and computing centres will be locked in marriages of convenience. Libraries and computing centres in universities are coming together increasingly,...
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The quest for Seren-dipity
All library databases may soon be linked, Iola Smith reports. A Bangor project plans to enable lecturers and students in Wales to use all the principality's library materials. The Pounds 350,000...
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Information culture in search of a landslide
They are short of money, running out of space, and threatened by rising crime. They are struggling with technology that offers amazing opportunities but often disappoints in practice and always...
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Delivery focus
Loughborough University will use teams from information and library studies and computer studies departments for a three-year investigation document delivery to specialist users. The project, Focused...
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Wellcome Rom
The Wellcome Trust's financial activities are now available on CD-Rom. Its annual report for 1994 complements the printed version. It contains data on research grants, scientific panels,...
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Diary 96
Cost-effective digital media, managing libraries in the digital age, library automation and sharing resources over networks are some of the themes of Computers In Libraries 96 from next February 20-...
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By the BIC
Book Industry Communication's Web site, now accessed at http://www.bic.org.uk/bic, is a useful resource which gives details of BIC projects with to access lists and hypertext links to United Kingdom...
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Face of an angel
A single Internet access point for comprehensive information on Europe's national libraries was launched last week. GABRIEL (GAteway and BRidge to Europe's national Libraries) is a pilot World-Wide...
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Fibre-optic olive branches
Helena Flusfeder reports on Israel's expanding virtual OU classrooms. An experimental satellite system is enabling lecturers at Israel's Open University to teach distant classes simultaneously...
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Citation takes fast track to a dead end
Jim Smith finds that the Net is no place to anchor references in serious academic studies. I came across some material on the Internet while researching United Nations peacekeeping some years ago...
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Budgets rise for high-tech learning
Rapid changes are taking place in United States colleges and universities, including a greater emphasis on student learning and more use of computer technology, according to the annual survey of...