CDROM technology has been available for ten years and has become very popular in the last five. This paper presents an overview of the world scenario of CDROM technology and highlights its future. It then discusses th...
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CDROM technology has been available for ten years and has become very popular in the last five. This paper presents an overview of the world scenario of CDROM technology and highlights its future. It then discusses the CDROM industry in India and lists the various Indian CDROM products that are of recent origin. The paper concludes that India could adopt this technology, which has vast potential for publishing Indian databases and needs to rationalise its CDROM procurement. The introduction of compulsory computer education in Indian schools augurs well for the CDROM market.
Examines the effects of CD-ROM on academic library reference work. Topics discussed include the impact on job duties of the reference librarian; impact on users; system drawbacks; location of equipment; search strateg...
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Examines the effects of CD-ROM on academic library reference work. Topics discussed include the impact on job duties of the reference librarian; impact on users; system drawbacks; location of equipment; search strategies of users versus librarians; budgetary concerns; and future ramifications, including networking and electronic publishing. (10 references) (LRW)
Following a brief introduction to the history of online and online training, this article surveys current training from the point of view of the trainers, the trainees and the media. The final section deals in depth w...
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Following a brief introduction to the history of online and online training, this article surveys current training from the point of view of the trainers, the trainees and the media. The final section deals in depth with computer-assisted instruction for online searching with examples drawn from a number of available packages. Some of the techniques, such as self-testing and search simulations, as well as the advantages of this method of instruction are discussed.
Discusses the extent to which online use of databases is affected by a foreign language barrier. Topics discussed include the effects in western Europe on establishing a uniform information market; database distributi...
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Discusses the extent to which online use of databases is affected by a foreign language barrier. Topics discussed include the effects in western Europe on establishing a uniform information market; database distribution by language; retrieval software; contracts, documentation, and training; and databases that try to overcome the language barrier. (16 references) (LRW)
The National CD-ROM Sampler is a collection of significant Extension material collected from across the United States, and was a project requested by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the Extension Service/U...
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Traces the development of database production and the online industry in Australia, focusing on recent trends, problems and prospects for future online and CD-ROM use. Argues that new pricing arrangements can provide ...
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Traces the development of database production and the online industry in Australia, focusing on recent trends, problems and prospects for future online and CD-ROM use. Argues that new pricing arrangements can provide growth in a market fragmented by increases in specialization and government information, and in numbers of vendors, databases, end users, and CD-ROMs. (15 references) (EA)
This annotated bibliography lists 48 U.S. federal government technical reports and nondepository documents published in 1991 that cover a wide range of topics, including the environment, agriculture, wildlife, educati...
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This annotated bibliography lists 48 U.S. federal government technical reports and nondepository documents published in 1991 that cover a wide range of topics, including the environment, agriculture, wildlife, education, and health care. It is noted that some titles are available on microfiche or CD-ROM. (MES)
Examines the usual difficulties faced by the implementation of information and knowledge dissemination systems in developing countries and explores the possible use of CD-ROM technology to overcome them. A pilot proje...
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Discussion of issues involved in planning a multimedia CD-ROM product explains the selection of authoring tools, the design of a user interface, expert systems, text conversion and capture (including scanning and opti...
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Discussion of issues involved in planning a multimedia CD-ROM product explains the selection of authoring tools, the design of a user interface, expert systems, text conversion and capture (including scanning and optical character recognition), and problems associated with image files. The use of audio is also discussed, and a 14-item glossary is provided. (SD)
The WHDB (Welthandels Datenbank - World Trade database) of the BWK (Austrian Federal Economic Chamber) is a specialised information service which provides Austrian firms, companies and governmental institutions with i...
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The WHDB (Welthandels Datenbank - World Trade database) of the BWK (Austrian Federal Economic Chamber) is a specialised information service which provides Austrian firms, companies and governmental institutions with information and data about worldwide commodity trade statistics. Its second function is to be a leading source for introducing new information media into the department. such as developing a company profile CD-ROM. Only a few parameters are of crucial significance in describing a request for information in the field of import and export statistics. Nevertheless the process of choosing the right source to satisfy the user's demand is often rather tricky and very dependent on experience and skill. In the process of reorganising this information service from a rigid, programmed, host-oriented inhouse data service of the early 1980s to a customer-oriented information service for the 1990s, using online and CD-ROM sources, a number of investigations were made to locate the relevant sources and to evaluate their significance for this service. As a result, a survey of sources of statistical import and export data will be presented. Another result is the perception that attributes like accuracy, precision and individual tuning have priority over offering large amounts of data, automation and sophisticated statistical methods. We concluded with a model of a combined system using internal sources for automatic explorations and external sources for accuracy and flexibility. After one year of intense work with the chosen external sources, a critical revision of some of the assumptions and conclusions was made, leading to a system of using only external sources (online and CD-ROM) for data acquisition, freeing the local computers for subsequent processing, organisation and preparation of this retrieved data. In addition, this experience provided material for discussing the abilities, proposals and reality of the chosen information sources from the viewpoint of a prof
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