THE NAVAL AVIONICS FACILITY, INDIANAPOLIS (NAFI) TECHNICAL LIBRARY IS PLANNING A MECHANIZED SYSTEM TO PRODUCE A PERMUTED INDEX OF PERTINENT PERIODICAL REFERENCES AND PROCEEDINGS, WITH BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS TO BE ADDED LATER. INPUT TO THE SYSTEM IS PUNCHED PAPER TAPE PREPARED FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL, AND THE PRIMARY PROGRAM IS A "CANNED"…

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ESTABLISH A DIALOG BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE MACHINE. BY MEANS OF DISPLAYS, THE USER RECEIVES IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK OF THE RESULT OF HIS ACTIONS, AND HE IS ABLE TO MODIFY HIS DECISIONS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A SYSTEM RESPONSE THAT IS MOST RELEVANT TO HIS NEEDS. BOLD (BIBLIOGRAPHIC ON-LINE DISPLAY) IS AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY…

Describes three major features of treatment of paradigmatic thesaural information in microcomputer-based concept network management system: use of simple graphic displays of thesaural or paradigmatic information (linktypes); use of thesaural information to generate indirect entries; capability of customizing index displays, including thesaural…

NETPAD is a microcomputer-based system, implemented on a Commodore PET 2001-8, by which a human indexer can input, retrieve, and edit information in order to produce a variety of permuted index displays. The basic unit of the NETPAD system is a subnetwork (a description of a single document) containing a set of concept nodes (author, title, date,…

Three separate articles describe the online union catalog developed and implemented at the University of California to enhance public access. Planning for library automation, development and production of the database, access points to the catalog, the patron interface, standardizing input data, and merging records are discussed. References are…