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Patterson, Diana
Mount Royal College
Calgary, Canada
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  Public access microcomputers: a handbook for librarians (2nd ed.)
Dewey P. (ed), G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, MA, 1990.  Type: Book (9780816118960)

This collection of notes, cautions, suggestions, and anecdotes about the installation of microcomputers in public libraries for use by ordinary citizens (rather than by the staff) is written for librarians. The chapter titles give the ...

Jul 1 1991  
  Newspaper indexing: using an IBM mainframe computer and a text-formatting program
Wall C. Speech Communication 6(1): 34-39, 1987.  Type: Article

This paper is written by a librarian in a small library in Kentucky who shares with other librarians a simple method of creating indices to local newspapers. Very large national papers, such as the New York Times, she says, have...

Mar 1 1988  
  Softwar
Brenton T., Howson M., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Austin, TX, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780030049989)

Softwar is a “novel” about using computer programs to fight political wars between the US and the USSR. There are several very flat characters moving through the explanations of the political crises, badly wr...

Oct 1 1987  
  A model for word processing systems
Laganà M., Locuratolo E., Sprugnoli R.  New applications of data bases (, Cambridge, UK, 1381984.  Type: Proceedings

This paper describes a model for creating documentation suitable for display on various computer terminals. This “TSD model” has a set of text (T); screen formats and hardware limitations (S); and a dictionary of wo...

Mar 1 1986  
  The use of a commercial microcomputer database management system as the basis for bibliographic information retrieval
Armstrong C. Journal of Information Science 8(5): 197-201, 1984.  Type: Article

This brief article describes one librarian’s use of dBASE II for handling troublesome items in small libraries: articles, offprints, photocopies, and so on. The software is described in one of his citations. Armstrong is inte...

Jun 1 1985  
  Concepts of the document interchange protocol for the telematic services - CCITT draft recommendation s.a
Horak W. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 8(3): 175-185, 1984.  Type: Article

This paper describes the notions that communications engineers have about documents that might be transmitted over communications lines. It then mentions, for the benefit of the cognoscenti, references to current and proposed standard...

Mar 1 1985  
 
 
 
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