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Stevens, Norman – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1983
Presents overview of library uses of automation, noting the earliest example of a "black box" in 1588, the "indicator" invented in England in 1863, various forms of card catalogs, and computer solutions posed by Vannevar Bush, J. C. R. Licklider, Project Intrex, and John G. Kemeny. Ten references are cited. (EJS)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Foreign Countries, History, Inventions
Goodrum, Charles; Dalrymple, Helen – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1982
Outlines the automation process at the Library of Congress begun in 1961, noting problems encountered and future possibilities, and describing databases currently in use--SCORPIO, MUMS, MARC, COPICS AND COINS, ISIS, AND PAGING. (EJS)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Databases, Display Systems, Information Networks
