08th May 2008
Computing has almost gone full circle, but history doesn’t quite repeat itself. Back in the 1960s we had mainframe computers with dumb or simple terminals. The software and data were loaded on the central mainframe computer and the ter¬minal was merely...
08th May 2008
Computing has almost gone full circle, but history doesn’t quite repeat itself. Back in the 1960s we had mainframe computers with dumb or simple terminals. The software and data were loaded on the central mainframe computer and the ter¬minal was merely...
07th May 2008
Professionals may undertake the task of choosing an integrated library management system (ILMS) only once or twice in their career (unless they are a consultant). When I was at library school this was not specifically covered in the cur¬riculum. When I w...
09th April 2008
The number of prisoners detained in UK prisons has reached an epic of 82,000, which is around 0.15% of the UK population. 3% of these prisoners are children under the age of 18.
A BBC article on the 22nd of February 2008 reported that 'UK priso...