Electronic Library and Visual Information Research 3

• Introduction; Developing an electronic library: strategic and management issues; A digital video library system of the Mandala Library; Development of image libraries for network distribution; Using the WWW as an electronic library; Using NLP resources in the BORGES information filtering tool; Collaborative browsing and visualisation of the search process; Bibliographic control, archiving and access of electronic publications as a joint undertaking by author and library; The culture of convergence; An investigation of the paradigm shift from ownership to access in the electronic library; Gender differences in Internet perception and use; Student attitudes and behaviour towards an electronic library; Monitoring and evaluation of computer based, networked information and support systems; Automatic image content retrieval - are we getting anywhere? The Online Bestiary Project; Semantic closeness and classification schema based hypermedia access; Meta-guidelines for designing and building WWW sites; Publishing a scholarly journal on the WWW; Converting structured documents for electronic libraries on the WWW.

'A good insight into some of the challenges facing all of us involved in the development of the electronic library.' - Program