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Peer reviewedLeggate, Peter; Dyer, Hilary – Electronic Library, 1985
This first in a series of six articles introducing microcomputer applications in smaller libraries discusses microcomputer components (hardware, operating systems, applications software); microcomputer history; current hardware; library applications; performance criteria; factors influencing performance; integrated systems; information retrieval;…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Costs, Evaluation Criteria, History
Peer reviewedYother, Larry W. – Electronic Library, 1987
Details the "painful" history, development, and progress of a "home-grown" library automation system at the Hartford State Technical College; describes several of the most common activities generated from menus; and looks at future prospects of the system. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Higher Education, Input Output Devices
Peer reviewedRaitt, D. I. – Electronic Library, 1985
This scenario of a possible library of the future includes reviews of technology and equipment either currently or soon to be available to libraries for information input, storage, processing, output, and transmission; descriptions of several existing forward-looking library and information systems; and a discussion of the impact of futuristic…
Descriptors: Change, Communications Satellites, Computer Storage Devices, Futures (of Society)
