Reports results of a survey, based largely on published sources but supplemented by visits to certain countries, of the current state of libraries and information in the Near East and Central Asia. The following countries ...

Today, new information technologies as digital storage, digitizing, printing and network have reached maturity. These technologies, far from being a threat, are opening new possibilities to books, pu­blishers and libraries. ...

In this paper the latest advances in developing digital libraries and hybrid libraries - those which combine traditional and digital services - will be considered from a cross-European viewpoint. Acade­mic libraries are ...

Reports on the proceedings of the second 'Libraries Without Walls' conference, organized by CERLIM (Centre for Research in Library and Information Management) and held at Molyvos, Greece on 17-20 September 1997. The topic ...

The Future of Libraries in Human Communication. Twentieth Annual IATUL Conference 1999, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 17-21 May 1999. The full text of the conference papers are published as WORD documents ...

This paper briefly describes both organizational and technical issues anti approaches involved in creating an operational digital library at the University of Crete, found at http://dlib.libh.uoc.gr. We investigate and ...

Reports a conference on the strengthening of modern Greek collections cosponsored by the Library of Congress (LC) and the Council on Library and Information Resources which covered the state of modern Greek collections in ...

The Future of Libraries in Human Communication. Twentieth Annual IATUL Conference 1999, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 17-21 May 1999. (The CD-ROM is available from IATUL [URL:http://www.iatul.org/]. Engineers ...

Advances in information technology during the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of clinical information systems dedicated to di erent user groups and clinical functional areas. This, in turn, has created the ...