The Acquisitions System has been using the IBM 360/40 computer since April 1968. The order routine is described and pertinent order records and printouts discussed. (Author/NH)

The Library Information System Time-Sharing (LISTS) experiment was based on three innovations in data processing technology: (1) the advent of computer time-sharing on third-generation machines, (2) the development of general-purpose file-management software and (3) the introduction of large, library-oriented data bases. The main body of the…

The unprecedented growth of the information sources concerning science and technology makes it particularly urgent that the processes of information storage, information retrieval, information processing according to needs, representation of results and their storage in preparation for the subsequent processing stages be mechanized. With this end…

This second LARC (Library Automation Research and Consulting Association) automation survey presents a number of significant improvements over the first survey. Although the number of survey reports has not increased greatly, all of them have been updated and reflect, as nearly as it is possible to do, the current status of automation operations…

Highlights of the Processing Department's activities in the sixties are supplemented by statistical comparative tables showing the growth from 1960 to 1969. Following the highlights, is the Department's 1969 annual report. (MF)

Despite recent research and development in the field of library automation, libraries have been unable to reap the benefits promised by technology due to the high cost of building and maintaining their own computer-based systems. Time-sharing and disc mass storage devices will bring automation costs, if spread over a number of users, within the…

Designed to fill the need for a continuing series to provide scholarly reviews of the reapidly changing field of librarianship, this book presents critical articles and surveys based on the published literature, research in progress, and developments in libraries of all types. The eleven subject areas covered are: (1) "The Machine and Cataloging"…

A talk given at an ALA preconference on "New Dimensions in Acquisitions (Atlantic City, July, 1969). A plea is made for the U.S. publishing industry to speed up the adoption of Standard Book Numbers (SBN) to be assigned to all books in print as well as all books published in the future. Standardized customer numbers are also advocated, and…

An account of the University of Alaska Library's first automation project. (JB)

Computer procedures applied to the Arkansas State University's book purchasing program. (MF)

Use of an IBM 1401 computer and a single keypunch operation for changing a college book collection from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress classification; for acquisitions, accounting and circulation procedures; and for production of a list of periodical holdings. A mark-sense reproducer is used for the circulation system. (Editor)

Automated systems for acquisitions and catalogue production for the Wessex Medical Library are outlined in this interim report, with some account of why particular decisions were made. Section A describes the acquisitions system and Section B describes the cataloging system. The appendices contain: (1) computer configurations, (2) flexowriter…