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Shank, Russell; And Others – 1971
The recommendations of this study are: (1) The western provinces of Canada should move toward making available to the university libraries of the region, the prospective benefits of a magasystem organization during the next ten years. (2) There is no present need or justification for mounting an immediate crash program to create the computer-based…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Information Services, Information Systems

Hoffmann, Ellen – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
This examination of the relationships between bibliographic utilities, online vendors, and local systems in the automated library environment, discusses library autonomy and standards, as well as customized options and quality of service offered by utilities and vendors. Suggestions are offered for maintaining relationships in a changing…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Computers, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries

Merilees, Bobbie – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
This analysis of trends in the Canadian library systems marketplace in 1986, compares installations of large integrated systems and microcomputer based systems by relative market share, and number of installations by type of library. Canadian vendors' sales in international markets are also analyzed, and a director of vendors provided. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Computers, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Library Automation
Smith, Stephen H. – 1981
This study to determine the hardware and computing facility costs of establishing and operating a British Columbia Library Network (BCLN) for current members of the B. C. Union Catalogue used empirical data regarding their performance of the DOBIS system and estimates of workload, and compared those data with the costs of obtaining current…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. Office of Library Coordination. – 1975
The Monograph Demonstration Project, an experiment in cooperative library development, was conducted by the Council of Ontario Universities from July, 1973 through April, 1975. Objectives of the project were to establish that an automated, on-line cataloging support system is practical within the Ontario University library community, to provide…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computers, Demonstration Programs
Duchesne, Roderick M. – 1974
This study shows strategies which can be used to plan and implement the Canadian National Library's bibliographic data base and the systems which it is to support. The data base would be a subset of a national bibliographic data base which can be brought together in the context of the projected Canadian Library and Information Retrieval Center.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Citations (References), Computer Programs, Computers
Interuniversity Communications Council (EDUCOM), Princeton, NJ. – 1974
Further developing a theme that has characterized several recent EDUCOM conferences, the 1974 EDUCOM Fall Conference focused on "Computing and Networks in Higher Education." Included in the conference program were papers and discussions on approaches to solving the organizational and financial problems of networking used in both the…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers