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White, Howard S. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1973
General areas covered in this review include: micrographics, cataloger's cameras, binding, photocopiers, conservation of library materials, automation, and audiovisual equipment. (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communications, Libraries, Library Automation
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1989
Argues that the growing use of technology is beginning to erode the free library ethic by blurring distinctions between commercial and not-for-profit information suppliers and fostering competition between and among various suppliers. It is suggested that libraries need to implement new entrepreneurially oriented management structures to cope with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Utilities, Competition, Entrepreneurship
Alloway, Catherine Suyak – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
As library automation extends to the bookmobile, it is capable of providing service comparable to that of a small branch library. Technologies--online catalogs and circulation information, CD-ROM databases, copiers and fax machines--are increasingly available and online links to the main library are maintained via cellular phones or packet radio.…
Descriptors: Bookmobiles, Facsimile Transmission, Information Technology, Library Automation
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Kumar, R. P.; Attri, P. – International Library Review, 1987
This discussion of the progress made in the fields of technology and communications in India describes a number of government projects, leading manufacturers and industries, advances made in various areas, and the current status of information technologies in India. (CLB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Electronics Industry, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries
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Steele, Colin; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
Five brief articles examine new library technologies and physical problems; potential health hazards posed by frequent use of photocopiers; psychological deterrence of electronic security systems; quality control of cooperative cataloging in a library network; and the billing system designed and programed for a medical library. Two articles…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accounting, Alarm Systems, Bibliographic Utilities