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Volume 20, Issue 1
1 January 1986
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Program: electronic library and information systems
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Review Article| January 01 1986

Using standard software for small‐scale library projects: experience at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic with WordStar and dBase II Available to Purchase

Catherine E. Hare;
Catherine E. Hare
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Ian R. Winship
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Program (1986) 20 (1): 62–70.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046926

WordStar and dBase II are used for a very wide range of small‐scale applications within a general policy of making computers available to all library staff. Ease of use is aided by having menu‐driven programs and providing appropriate instructions for each application. Descriptions are given of typical projects from straightforward word processing of user education documents to databases that require conversion between text and data files.

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