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Gust, Ran – Online Submission, 2008
Recovery of significant achievements by exemplary individuals and institutions in public education and librarianship informs our present understanding and motivates future efforts. This narrative history recounts some of the struggles and successes of a great city library when the very conception of a free, public library was still being defined.…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Education, Library Development, Library Facilities
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Dick, Richard S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1984
Discusses evolution of Integrated Library System (ILS) since its beginning at National Library of Medicine, highlighting events leading to ILS development; formative design stages, formation of Online Computer System; installation of ILS version 1.0 at Pentagon library; development of version 2.0, formation of Avatar Systems; OCLC's acquisition of…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Library Automation, Library Networks, Online Systems
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Jones, Richard M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Describes online catalog research being conducted in Europe in the areas of interaction and interface design, subject access, functional improvement through the application of information retrieval techniques, and library networks. Three operational online catalogs, not available outside Europe, are discussed. (30 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Library Networks, Library Research