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Sustik, Joan M. – 1981
A project which developed a retrieval system to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of an interactive computer and video display system over traditional methods for using a slide library is described in this publication. The art school slide library of the University of Iowa stores transparencies which are arranged alphabetically within…
Descriptors: Art History, Computers, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
Philipson, W. D. – 1978
This overview of the use of computers in educational film library management provides brief discussions of some current issues and problems, descriptions of seven operating systems, and a case study of the selection of a computer system for the facility at the University of Minnesota. Described are basic computer systems; advantages of their use…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Film Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Films
Weisbrod, David L. – 1979
This booklet, one of a series of background papers for the White House Conference, explores the potential of new technologies to improve library services while reducing library costs. Separate subsections describe the application of technology to the following library functions: acquisitions, catalogs and cataloging, serials control, circulation…
Descriptors: Costs, Library Automation, Library Equipment, Library Services
Barrentine, James K. – 1977
The OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Subsystem was designed to facilitate resource sharing among OCLC participating libraries, thereby enabling libraries to expand the range of library resources available to patrons. The final report describes subsystem design and functional uses of the ILL subsystem. A functional overview explains the file,…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries, Library Automation
Rivoire, Helena; Lozoski, Laurene – 1975
This report describes the development and operation of BARDS, the Bucknell Automated Retrieval and Display System, an online bibliographic access system for a selected section of the collection at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library. This system was used by the Bucknell University community from June 1974 through January 1975; further development…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Data Processing, Information Processing
Freund, Clare E. – 1977
The rules for catalog entries and punctuation outlined in this manual were used to prepare a computer-produced union catalog of the holdings of several libraries at the Eastman Kodak Company. The computer sorts digitally, considering first blanks, then punctuation marks, letters, and finally numbers. This results in a filing sequence which differs…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Cataloging, Filing, Information Storage
Goldstein, Samuel; And Others – 1970
Based on a literature survey of union cataloging, and New England libraries it was determined that: (1) New England's collective union catalog needs and problems had not been specified, especially regarding the possibilities of machine application; (2) crucial data and analysis needed for such specification was unavailable; and (3) the absence of…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, Computer Programs, Information Networks
Bibliographical Center for Research - Rocky Mountain Region, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1968
This is a feasibility study of a communications system for Wyoming libraries with recommendations for its installation. The basic recommendation calls upon the Wyoming State Library to undertake a demonstration project in rapid interlibrary communications, using teletype (TWX) facilities between selected libraries for a period commencing as soon…
Descriptors: Automation, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries, Library Automation
Tom, Ellen; Reed, Sue – 1970
This report describes the Systematic Computerized Processing in Cataloguing system (SCOPE), an automated system for the catalog department of a university library. The system produces spine labels, pocket labels, book cards for the circulation system, catalog cards including shelf list, main entry, subject and added entry cards, statistics, an…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Programs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1970
This evaluation, prepared by the staff of the Bureau of Academic and Research Libraries of the Division of Library Development of the New York State Library, analyzes the New York State Interlibrary Loan (NYSILL) system's performance in 1969, It reports on a detailed review of the whole NYSILL system as well as the two regional systems within it.…
Descriptors: Automation, Evaluation, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries
Axford, H. William, Ed. – 1974
Three major presentations from the 1973 Library Automation Research and Consulting Institute are included here. The first outlines the course of library automation in the preceding 10 years. The second is a discussion of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Automated Instructional Materials Handling System (AIMS), which includes materials…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Reports, Information Networks, Information Processing
Carpenter, G. Arthur; McFarland, Frank – Computerized Circulation Systems Series, 1974
With the opening of its new library in 1965, the Weber State College Library implemented an automated circulation system. At present, the system is handled in batch process by the Data Processing Center's IBM 360/40. Machine readable badges are issued to each library patron. Each book of the general collection contains a machine readable book…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Data Processing, Fines (Penalties)
Shank, Russell; And Others – 1971
The recommendations of this study are: (1) The western provinces of Canada should move toward making available to the university libraries of the region, the prospective benefits of a magasystem organization during the next ten years. (2) There is no present need or justification for mounting an immediate crash program to create the computer-based…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Information Services, Information Systems
Brandhorst, Wesley T. – 1969
The 116 citations on book catalogs are divided into the following two main sections: (1) Selected References, in alphabetic sequence by personal or institutional author and (2) Anonymous Entries, in alphabetic sequence by title. One hundred and seven of the citations cover the years 1960 through March 1969. There are five scattered citations in…
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Economics, Information Retrieval
New England Board of Higher Education, Wellesley, MA. – 1970
The final report on the Council on Library Resources (CLR) Grant #443 for the New England Library Information Network (NELINET) is divided into three parts. Section one is a general commentary on the NELINET project, which was conceived to test the viability of creating a centralized, regional capability to use electronic data processing…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
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