Information Today back issues from December 1991:
Maxwell Online restructures executive staff.
Dec 01, 1991; ... Ronald G. Dunn, group vice president, Maxwell Macmillan Professional and Electronic Publishing, recently announced the restructuring of the executive staff of Maxwell Online, Inc. As the announcement came in late October, these staff changes were obviously not influenced by the ...
Research project may ease retrieval of electronic documents.
Dec 01, 1991 ... Two professors in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies have been awarded a two-year, $689,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an information retrieval system that may revolutionize the way documents are located and retrieved from ...
ASIS: a unique experience. (American Society for Information Science) (Column)
Dec 01, 1991; ... In late October the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) convened in Washington, DC. Never having attended this meeting before I thought it was time to see who and what it is all about. The only way I can describe it is unique. I found ...
Supreme Court allows RBOCs to provide electronic information. (Regional Bell Operating Companies)
Dec 01, 1991; ... In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled October 30th not to delay the entry of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) into the electronic information-providing arena. The judgement comes after an October 7th ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals of the ...
Academic networks: publishers consider opportunities in library technology. (Library Technology) (Column)
Dec 01, 1991; ... The Society for Scholarly Publishing met recently in Washington, DC to consider the status of and opportunities inherent in electronic publishing. Although the meeting attracted a large turnout, end-of-the-day observtions by several attendees indicated that most registrants were looking ...
ASIS sponsors symposium on full-text retrieval. (American Society for Information Science)
Dec 01, 1991 ... A symposium on full-text retrieval, consisting of five panel discussions ranging from tutorials to systems proposed for the 21st century, was held at the 54th meeting of the American Society for Information Science on October 27 in Washington, DC. The symposium featured speakers on 19 ...
Worlds of discovery at CD-ROM Expo. (CD-ROM Update) (Column)
Dec 01, 1991; ... If you watch TV in the 7-9 AM weekday slot, you might have seen IBM's recently announced multimedia products "Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond" and "Illuminated Books & Manuscripts." Both were launched by James E. Dezell, IBM's Corporate VP and general manager of Educational ...
Lotus Development and Todd Enterprises sign agreement.
Dec 01, 1991 ... Lotus Development Corporation of Cambridge, MA, and Todd Enterprises of Bayside, NY, have announced that the two companies have signed an agreement in principal to co-develop a turn-key CD-ROM network server system for the nation's 100,000 community and school libraries. The ...
Canada's own Computers in Libraries conference.
Dec 01, 1991; ... Computers in Libraries Canada Conference (October 23-25, Metro Toronto Convention Centre) confirmed that this conference has established itself as the favored technology show with Canadian librarians and information specialists. Canadian librarians and information specialists ...
BuCat service to off-campus students. (Brandon University's online catalog)
Dec 01, 1991; ... Brandon University's online catalog (BuCAT) serves as a regional gateway to the resources of an academic library. Access is gained in one of two ways: (1) direct dial to the university's Micro-VAX, or; (2) through the Canadian packet switching network from communities with a Datapac node ....
IAC signs first multi-state Infotrac 2000 tape lease program with Minitex Consortium. (Information Access Company)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Information Access Company has signed their first multi-state Info Trac 2000 Tape lease agreement with a consortium of midwestern library networks. It is the largest network sytem of its kind. The consortium, headed up by the University of Minnesota (Minitex), includes: the Minnesota ...
Cooperative automation: Brodart's PAC + local development. (Ontario Library Consortium)
Dec 01, 1991; ... In 1985, 21 libraries in southern Ontario (15 counties, 6 cities), representing nearly a million people and 400 service points, formed a consortium to assist them in automating their libraries. OLC (Ontario Library Consortium) is totally owned and governed by its members. There is a ...
Local systems and national bibliographies.
Dec 01, 1991; ... As many of you know, I earned a doctorate in English before I went to library school. My dissertation was a project in analytical bibliography, a letter-by-letter comparison of multiple copies of the same sixteenth century text to determine how these copies related to each other and to ...
The Evolution of Library Automation: Management Issues and Future Perspectives.
Dec 01, 1991; ... The Evolution of Library Automation: Management Issues and Future Perspectives contains the papers from a seminar conducted at the Sixth Annual Computers in Libraries Conference. It is supplement to the serial Computers in Libraries (previously called Small Computers in Libraries). The ...
Monarch: extracting and organizing multi-file text and data. (Software Review)
Dec 01, 1991; ... Do you want a way to extract text and data from a large number of computer-generated reports and similar computer documents? Would you like to be able to copy that data into your spreadsheet, word processor or database manager? If so, Monarch may be the software package you are looking ...
Mead Data Central, Thomson to create electronic library.
Dec 01, 1991 ... Mead Data Central, Inc. and Thomson Professional Publishing announced an agreement that will create the world's largest electronic library of tax and accounting materials. Thomson's electronic library of enhanced tax law and analysis, formerly known as PHINet, became available ...
LC publishes update no. 1 to USMARC format for holdings data.
Dec 01, 1991 ... The Library of Congress has just published Update No. 1 to the USMARC Format for Holdings Data. It is available from the Library's Cataloging Distribution Service. This is the first update to the restructured and revised USMARC Holdings Format, which was issued in December 1989 and ...
Standard & Poor's renames key group. (Retail Investor Services to Equity Investor Services Group)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Standard & Poor's Corporation has changed the name of its Retail Investor Services division to the Equity Investor Services Group. The announcement was made by Michael K. Hehir, Executive Vice President-Operations. Standard & Poor's is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McGraw-Hill, Inc. ...
RLG unveils new document transmission system. (Research Libraries Group)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Research Libraries Group (RLG) has made available a new software package that enables fast, reliable, high-quality transmission of documents and images over the Internet (a communications network available at many higher-education and research institutions). Using standard PC hardware, ...
Disclosure opens info centers in DC and Tokyo.
Dec 01, 1991 ... Disclose Incorporated has opened new Info Centers in Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan. These new Centers will enable Disclosure clients in those areas to receive copies of original Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) filings for approximately 11,000 public companies within two hours. ...
Optical Publishing, Inc. and IBM ink co-op marketing agreement for CD-ROM publishing software.
Dec 01, 1991 ... In October Optical Publishing, Inc. (OPI) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) announced a joint marketing agreement for OPI's library of high-performance CD-ROM software products. This agreement is significant because IBM's mainframe customers can now get the software ...
SilverPlatter releases full text of SEC documents on CD-ROM. (SilverPlatter Information Inc.)
Dec 01, 1991 ... SilverPlatter Information has released the SEC Online database on CD-ROM. SEC Online is a full text database containing the unedited text of the form 10Ks and 20Fs for all NYSE, AMEX, and selected NMS/NASDAQ companies. The full text of the documents appear on the database exactly as they ...
SoftLine debuts Ethnic NewsWatch.
Dec 01, 1991 ... SoftLine Information, Inc., a new electronic publishing company formed by key principals and executives of JA micropublishing, has announced the introduction of the Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). ENW is the first multicultural database of the ethnic and minority press and is a full-text, ...
New InnerView licensing fees.
Dec 01, 1991 ... TMS, a vendor of electronic information retrieval software, recently announced new licensing fees for InnerView software. InnerView licensing fees have been significantly reduced, with more options, in response to both an expanding market and acceptance of optical discs as a delivery ...
Biotechnology Abstracts CD-ROM. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Derwent, in cooperation with SilverPlatter Information, has just launched the CD-ROM version of its Biotechnology Abstracts database containing the complete set of more than 122,000 references going back to 1982. Researchers in biotechnology, as well as information specialists, can now ...
Hitachi unveils fourth generation internal CD-ROM drive. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... The Multimedia Systems Division of Hitachi Home Electronics has introduced what they are touting as the world's fastest internal drive, the company's fourth generation design, the CDR-3700. Hitachi has developed an internal drive with improved speed, reliability, and ...
Superior Public Library, WI signs for LIBS 100plus with CLSI.
Dec 01, 1991 ... Superior Public Library in Superior, Wisconsin has signed a contract for the LIBS 100plus, CLSI's second-generation automation system. The LIBS 100plus uses the Progress fourth generation language/relational database management system (4GL/RDBMS), a major component of its open system ...
STAR software now available on UNIX Systems. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... STAR, the multi-user text management and information retrieval system produced by Cuadra Associates is now available on computer systems running either the SCO or AT&T versions of UNIX V. According to Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra, president of Cuadra Associates, the STAR software, which ...
UMI load program now available to NOTIS MDAS users.
Dec 01, 1991 ... UMI/Data Courier, through its database licensing program, recently announced a new UMI database loader for NOTIS MDAS customers. Designed to keep on-site database costs and maintenance to a minimum, the new program allows customers to load UMI/Data Courier's ...
Gaylord installs 260-terminal system. (Suffolk County, New York)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Gaylord imformation Systems has installed a new, 260-terminal GALAXY Integrated Library System in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. The system is the largest GALAXY installation thus far, with 260 terminals, serving 19 independent libraries throughout the county. Myron ...
CBIS announces network-OS Plus. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... CBIS, Inc. is now providing a solution to the RAM memory usage dilemma with Network-OS Plus. Now networks can be loaded high through several memory configuration options, giving users the flexibility needed to run memory intensive applications. Written for IBM-PC DOS/Microsoft ...
Canon expands printer product line. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Canon U.S.A., Inc. has added two new laser beam printers to its printer product line. The printers, the LBP-8 Mark III PLUS and the LBP-4 PLUS feature additional printing fonts, automatic image refinement and higher resolutions because of their line-smoothing abilities. The two printers ...
Compact and lightweight external hard drives from Laptop. (Laptop Solutions Inc.) (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Laptop Solutions, Inc. has introduced the X-STOR family of external hard disk sub-systems for laytop or desktop systems, X-STOR 25 battery-powered units, available in 40 or 60 MB capacities (and in 120 and 180 MB capacities in the near future), are ideal partners for portable users, ...
Cherokee ships rewritable 3.5" optical disk drive. (Cherokee Data Systems Inc.) (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Cherokee Data Systems, Inc. (Cherokee) has announced the availability of a rewritable 3.5" optical disk drive subsystem for personal computers. Using magneto-optic (MO) data cartridges, it allows the storage of up to 128 MB of data on a single disk. Disk cartridges are formatted in the ...
Automated workstation inventory management utility for Novell networks. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Magee Enterprises, Inc. has released Version 1.1 of Network H.Q., an automated workstation inventory management utility for Novell networks. New features make the utility quicker to install and simpler to use. One of the significant additions to the product is automatic ...
Context sensing software, detects location of online intelligence. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... OnLoQ Software has begun shipping Intelligence Agent, an AI system that computes the location of online information in American, European and Japanese business and technological fulltext databases. The software generates probability scores on databases based on user provided ...
Device provides new concept in PC sharing & remote access. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... A new "plug & go" hardware device, Station Doubler, from Support Systems International Corp., allows two users with separate keyboards and monitors to share a PC. Multiuser software or Local Area Network (LAN) is not required. Users alternately access the PC automatically with the touch ...
Dun & Bradstreet introduces Dun's Direct Access 3.0. (Product Announcement)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, North America, has introduced Dun's Direct Access 3.0, an enhanced version of D & B's personal-computer software that gives businesses quick access to marketing information from Dun & Bradstreet. Dun's Direct Access 3.0 gives business ...
Upgrades to ABI/Inform. (UMI/Data Courier) (Brief Article)
Dec 01, 1991 ... UMI/Data Courier has announced extensive enhancements to ABI/Inform, the business and management database, file INFO on Data-Star. Recently, the editors of ABI/Inform increased the company-name indexing by 150 percent and added 80 new sources. But even more changes are under ...
Business International now available on Dialog. (Brief Article)
Dec 01, 1991 ... Business International, a premier source of full-text strategic reports on business worldwide, is now available on Dialog as File 627. Business International provides business information on 57 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America from a variety of sources, including ...