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Peer reviewedLynch, Clifford A.; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1983
Discussion of factors which led Division of Library Automation, University of California, to configure its computing resources as they are now, notes distributed processing, centralized processing, machine architecture, selection of operating system, telecommunications software, software packages for online catalogs, and problems of overhead and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedToliver, David E. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1982
Discusses intelligent front-end processors designed to impose uniform standards on multiple databases and assist searchers, including motivation for development, prototypes from research community, commercial systems using microcomputers, capabilities and problems encountered in developing Franklin Institute's Online Database Search Assistance…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Information Retrieval, Input Output Devices, Man Machine Systems
Peer reviewedMcCarn, Davis B.; McCarn, Grace H. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1983
Describes ongoing project to automate production of 26 indexes and catalogs produced by H. W. Wilson Company through use of the BEACON system and its online screen-edit program, SCREED. System objectives, system architecture, specifications, components (data entry, validation, release, file generation, retrieval, publication, photocomposition,…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Databases
