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Download full textLittle (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1967
A detailed description of the operating practices of a computerized book-ordering and processing center for the State University of New York (SUNY) and a plan for implementing such a center are presented. The center is designed to receive orders for purchasing books that are prepared by the member libraries, transmitted to the center over…
Descriptors: Automation, Centralization, College Libraries, Information Processing
Stanford Univ., CA. BALLOTS Center. – 1978
This narrative report relates the activities of the Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using a Time-sharing System (BALLOTS) program at Stanford University for the original contract period and extensions, during which time the original single-user system was transformed into an automated network of libraries across the country.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Services, Information Systems, Library Acquisition
Stanford Univ., CA. BALLOTS Center. – 1978
This report reviews the goals, operating system, and development plans as of spring 1978 for the Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using a Time-sharing System (BALLOTS) program, an online interactive library automation system developed by Stanford University in 1967. Five primary goals that will guide the operations and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Services, Information Systems, Library Acquisition
Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission, St. Paul. – 1969
The major purpose of this study is to identify the information needs of all Minnesotans involved in some post-secondary educational pursuit and to determine if existing resources and services meet those needs. The study report consists of two parts. The first section includes analysis of library data for the 1967-68 year in the areas of available…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Services
Tompkins, Mary L. – 1967
A series of symposia were conducted to provide forums for discussion of the problems arising when introducing into the single campus university library media which can be processed by computers. The first symposium "xplored the relationship between the university library and national network systems. The second concerned the relationship of…
Descriptors: Automation, Biological Sciences, College Libraries, Computers
Peer reviewedFernandez de Zamora, Rosa Maria – International Library Review, 1990
Describes the effects of economic factors on information services in Mexico. Topics discussed include librarians' salaries; inadequate library budgets; acquisitions in academic libraries; the development of public libraries; library networks; national databases; microcomputers and library automation; library research; effects of devaluation; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
