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Martin, Susan K. – 1978
New technologies used by libraries include computers, minicomputers, photocopiers, audiovisual equipment, videocable, and satellite. Cataloging is a major area of computer application, with the MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) format developed by the Library of Congress providing batch mode services, and the more sophisticated OCLC (Ohio College…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Reports, Databases, Futures (of Society)
Martin, Susan K. – 1976
Some 25 library networks in the United States now rely on computers for resource sharing. Library functions that best lend themselves to automated network operation include: cataloging, acquisitions, interlibrary loan, and reference. Progress over the last ten years in collecting and standardizing machine-readable data for library applications…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computers, Databases, Information Services
Martin, Susan K. – Library Journal, 1984
Discussion of the effect of computer technology on library automation and networking highlights added benefits and added costs, autonomous past, pressure for standardization, rise of bibliographic utilities (e.g., OCLC, Research Library Information Network, Washington Library Network), return to decentralization, distributed processing,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Decentralization, Futures (of Society)