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Tassin, Anthony G., Ed. – Computerized Acquisitions Systems Series, 1974
Using an IBM 1401 computer with an 8,000 byte core capacity, the University of New Orleans has developed and is using an automated library acquisitions system. The system generates reports and documents that serve the library's administration, accounting, acquisitions, and serials staffs. Both monographic and serials acquisitions are processed…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Williams, Martha E.; MacLaury, Keith D. – 1977
The objective of the project was to develop an inexpensive and effective technique for matching records in multiple fields in order to build a union catalog containing only one representation of a given book. The Information Retrieval Research Lab (IRRL) developed a prototype system called IUCS (IRRL Union Catalog System) by testing various…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Storage Devices, Feasibility Studies
Peer reviewedBlackburn, Robert – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1979
Presents the decisions behind the closing of the main card catalog at University of Toronto Library and the procedures, problems, and costs involved in converting the catalog to an on-line system. User orientation to the conversion, including microform catalogs, training procedures, and use patterns are also discussed. (CWM)
Descriptors: Catalogs, Change Strategies, College Libraries, Information Storage
Download full textGrosch, Audrey N. – 1975
Alternative approaches to the building of monographic bibliography files for an on-line data management system using minicomputers at the University of Minnesota Libraries' Twin Cities Campus center are described. Secondary and primary sources of the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) II records are considered--including Blackwell-North America,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Citations (References), College Libraries, Computers
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1971
Libraries should resist the temptation to relinquish to computing centers the burden of looking after the university's digital data record resources for a growing volume of intellectually important material will arrive at the university on digital data tapes. If the user must arrange for access to this material outside the library, he will be…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1975
The use, history, and role of machine-readable data base technology is discussed. First the development of data base technology is traced from its beginnings as a special resource for science and technology to its broader use in universities, with descriptions of some specific services. Next the current status of mechanized information services in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
Attaullah; Johnson, Jane S. – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1991
Outlines the various steps involved in the process of modernizing the information storage and retrieval systems within the library of the Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University (NWFP AU) in Peshawar, Pakistan. Implementation of services for faculty, students, and provincial agricultural scientists is discussed, and staff training is…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Database Management Systems
