...Paddy Falls Discusses the disadvantages of CD‐ROMs and the Web from the perspective of professional information distributors and proposes an alternative solution. CD‐ROMs cannot easily be updated in a timely and cost‐effective way, whereas the Web compromises quality of graphics, sound and video...

... generate revenue to fund much‐needed resources such as new books, CD‐ROMs and memory upgrades for the library’s computers. Dun & Bradstreet gain feedback about their products direct from consumers, which means problems can be dealt with swiftly and efficiently. CD Business Locator holds information...

...Siriginidi Subba Rao Highlights the features of CD‐ROM as a choice medium for information storage and dissemination, factors favouring CD publishing, and its areas of application. Describes how the newly arrived CD recordable drive changed the idea of desktop CD making, its working and limitations...

... CD‐ROM End‐user computing Methodology Research The library service at Cranfield University has a keen interest in ensuring that technological developments are driven by customer needs, and has a tradition of innovations in this area (Bevan et al., 1996). One issue that refuses...

...S. Subba Rao Outlines information access through the right mixture of technologies namely, online and CD‐ROM. While mentioning the electronic databases, electronic information path and generations of online services, presents the salient features of CD‐ROMs, their cost effectiveness, database...

... is a feature which could profitably be set as standard in future updates of bibliographies, such as the inclusion of Library and Information Science Abstracts and its CD‐ROM equivalent in the article on libraries. An alternative approach in subject study is via the Propaedia, accessed...

... technologies including electronic communications, through AlterNex/Internet. Describes the use of electronic conferences to co‐ordinate and discuss information services and product delivery, co‐operative CD‐ROM production, marketing and information management. Anticipates the future use of CD‐ROM for full‐text...

...Manal Al‐Qaisi; S. Nazim Ali Describes how access to English‐language information by non‐English‐speaking students and faculty at a Middle Eastern university is being facilitated by making available a variety of machine‐readable sources, particularly CD‐ROM, and how not only searching...

...Helen E. Chandler There are few aspects of modern life which remain unaffected by the governances of the European Community (EC), and people need to be informed. Before CD‐ROM technology, access to EC information had been comparatively difficult for information workers outside specialist EC centres...