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Library of Congress Staff Test Optical Disk System.
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Reich, Victoria Ann; Betcher, Melissa Ann – College and Research Libraries, 1986
A survey of Library of Congress staff following implementation of four optical disk reader stations measured their satisfaction with training, documentation, equipment and printing, and system reliability and usefulness. Staff found no major flaws with the system, and they saw its usefulness primarily as an access tool. (CDD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Library Personnel
Hard Copy in Transition: An Automated Storage and Retrieval Facility for Low-Use Library Materials.
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Creaghe, Norma S.; Davis, Douglas A. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Describes an automated storage/retrieval system which is integrated with an online catalog and circulation system at California State University--Northridge as a practical solution to the problems of expanding collections and escalating construction costs. The impact of this system on user services is discussed. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Construction Costs, Crowding, Higher Education
Libraries as Life-Systems: Information, Entropy, and Coevolution on Campus.
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Weiskel, Timothy C. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
New technologies for generating, storing, and transmitting information will radically change information flow on college campuses and in society at large. University librarians will need to design environments for storing and retrieving these new types of information that will continue to nurture the life of the mind and support scholarship.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Costs