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Problems of government bureaucracy when contracting for turnkey computer systems

Kountz, John C.

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Title
Problems of government bureaucracy when contracting for turnkey computer systems
Author(s)
Kountz, John C.
Issue Date
1978
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Government bureaucracy
  • California state government
Abstract
"There is no single or best approach to portray the idiosyncrasies, real and imaginary, involved in contracting in most organizations. However, all this is simplified when the scope of discussion is narrowed to state bureaucracies, and becomes ""duck soup"" when the state is identified which in this case is California. Furthermore, in the state of California if those goods and services relate to data processing, massive amounts of unnecessary research are replaced by massive amounts of wasted time interspersed with concentrated effort. This will not be a brief statement of experience, bracketed by remarks and followed by three questions from the floor and a smiling retreat. Instead, the following is a somewhat fictionalized account of real events, of things done by real people to each other. These people are still plying their trades, and many of these real events have yet to become history."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (15th : 1978)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1092
Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1978.

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1978: Problems and failures in library automation PRIMARY
15th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1978). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.