Academic and Library Computing: Volume 9 Issue 5

News Briefs

Nancy Melin Nelson

Davenport Group Formed: Common Format for Online Documentation and Publication Systems. A group of over thirty UNIX system vendors, software vendors, and book publishers has…

Integrated Library Systems: A Primer on Z39.50: Part Four

Mark Hinnebusch

Last month, I discussed the InitializeRequest PDU in detail. This month, I will start by discussing the InitializeResponse PDU. You may wish to have last month's column handy for…

The Library in Academic Computing: “Faces and Bridges”— Part One: Library Computing and User Interfaces

D. Scott Brandt

This is the first of a two‐part article on user interfaces and bridges as they relate to library user interface design. In this first part, a short overview of library computing…

Online Public Access Catalogs: OPACs: Accessing Abstracting and Indexing Databases

Bernie Sloan

In the April issue I continued a discussion of the policy issues and considerations surrounding the linking of disparate online public access catalogs. The March issue began this…