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Rockman, Ilene F. – RQ, 1980
Includes an evaluation of turnkey circulation systems used to support online catalogs (Richard Boss), results of a survey to determine user attitudes toward online catalogs (Kenneth Dowlin), a description of Ohio State University's library control system (Susan Miller), and a profile of a user-designed subject retrieval system (Kaske and Sanders).…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Information Retrieval, Library Automation, Library Catalogs
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Bossers, Anton; Van Muyen, Martin – Electronic Library, 1984
Describes the Pica Library Automation Network (originally the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation), which is based on a centralized bibliographic database. Highlights include the Pica conception of library automation, online shared cataloging system, circulation control system, acquisition system, and online Dutch union catalog with…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Foreign Countries, Library Acquisition
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
Of the 64 libraries responding to a 1978 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey, 37 indicated that they used automated circulation systems; half of these were commercial systems, and most were batch-process or combination batch process and online. Nearly all libraries without automated systems cited lack of funding as the reason for not…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Automation