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...
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CD link rebuilds course guide
Prospective higher education students can now access essential information on more than 32,000 courses in the United Kingdom through a multimedia CD-Rom. StudyLink UK from Education MultiMedia...
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Kent cashes its Net egg
The University of Kent has sold Internet provider EUnet GB to the American company Performance Systems International for Pounds 2.94 million in cash and stock. EUnet GB began in the 1980s as an...
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Standards struggle on home pages
Australia's universities have been forced to grapple with a dramatic new problem: how to set down standards for individual home pages on the World-Wide Web without infringing academic freedom. With...
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Whence Pounds 10bn?
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...