...Ali Zeb; Fazal Ur Rehman; Majed Bin Othayman; Muhammad Rabnawaz Purpose Given the increasing attention on ChatGPT in academia due to its advanced features and capabilities, this study aims to examine the links among Artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge sharing, ethics, academia and libraries...

...Ayoku A. Ojedokun This paper examines the University of Botswana’s efforts at implementing e‐learning and transforming the University of Botswana Library (UBL) into a learning resource centre (LRC), with the assistance of the US Government’s education, democracy and development initiative (EDDI...

...Marcia Henry Briefly describes two regional Web sites which offer links to OPACs ‐ the New York State Electronic Doorway Library Network and British Library OPAC 97. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Internet Libraries Library services In addition to the many OPAC directories described...

...Marcia Henry Briefly describes the WWW Library Directory ‐ Framed Edition, a Web directory that can link up to Web pages of all types of libraries throughout the world. Illustrates how links are arranged and listed, and gives brief guidelines for libraries who want to use the facility to advertise...

...Marcia Henry The Library of Congress has one of the largest library collections in the world. Describes the catalog, which is available online on the World Wide Web. Figure 2 http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html #lc ‐ simple search Figure 3 http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950...

...Marcia Henry Looks at WebCATS, the latest award‐winning directory of online public access catalogs (OPACs), which provides access geographically, by library type and by vendor. Explains that WebCATS can access 300 library catalogs and provides a link from its opening Web page to another directory...

...Marcia Henry In the last issue of CWIS, Hytelnet and LibGopher, two directories for finding OPACS (Online Public Access Catalogs) on the Internet were described. Library OPACS can also be reached in an indirect fashion when browsing broader based directories. This article shows directories that can...

...Marcia Henry There are several ways to connect to a library catalog on the Internet. Telneting to its Internet Protocol address has been the traditional and is probably still the most popular method. Most recently libraries are providing links to their catalogs via their home pages. This article...

...Paul Anthony In July of 1989, the Circulation Department of Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville began to employ a microcomputer‐based circulation system for tracking various library materials not held or chargeable in our main LCS (ILLINET Online) database. Called Elijah...

...Kenneth Marks Reviews the potential of the IBM Academic LANkit, a package originally used to create networked classrooms and laboratories, and now seen as being useful for libraries. Shows how LANkit simplifies the tasks involved in administrating and operating a local area network. IBM's LANkit...

... for virtual library. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Communications Computer hardware Computer software Information services Internet Information technology Libraries Telecommunications CYFERNET: A Virtual Library for Sharing Information John Kane III and Sharon Wright The Youth Development...

...Kenneth Marks; Steven Nielsen Offers a particular forecast of library networking in coming years,within the context of individual libraries. Foresees library networking as being completely dependent on computer client/server approaches;library patrons or staff should be able to go to a single...

...Linda Pearce Examines the implementation and development of a local area network user booking system for large reference libraries. Provides a typical example of LAN use and booking procedures and offers a more effective alternative for managing the problem of scheduling use. © MCB UP Limited...

... created from a bibliographic database. Non‐library examples would be browsing the names of people in a personnel file or the course numbers in an academic calendar database. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Computer technology Libraries Scanners Integrated Library Systems The Z39.50 SCAN Service...

...Pat Ensor Reports on sessions at the 1992 American Society for Information Science annual conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Includes recent developments in electronic refereed journals and the future of electronic publishing. Considers some of the implications for libraries...

...Howard Strauss Considers a hypothetical law school library, L.A. Law Lib, and its bid to become a leader in library automation. Discusses key issues for implementing on‐line access to its extensive catalogue, and carefully considers the open nature of the Internet and its implications for law...

...Bernie Sloan Continues on from an article in the previous issue with an overview of policy issues and considerations, focusing on some strategic recommendations made by the May 1987 task force of the New York State Library. General recommendations cover financial plans,telecommunications policy...

... UP Limited 1992 Information retrieval Information technology Libraries Integrated Library Systems Mark Hinnebusch A Primer on Z39.50: Part Three This month, I wish to begin describing the various messages, called Protocol Data Units (PDUs), defined by the Z39.50 standard. In the past...

... Communications Computers Internet Librarians Libraries Unix The Library in Academic Computing D. Scoff Brandt UNIX Revisited Last month's column described UNIX's contribution to the internetwork environment and how librarians are likely to interact with UNIX and that environment. In this column I present...

... Limited 1992 Information retrieval Information technology Libraries Integrated Library Systems Mark Hinnebusch A Primer on Z39.50: Part Two Summarizing from last month, Z39.50 is a standard that defines a protocol enabling remote searching of databases and retrieval of the results...