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Future directions for machine-readable data bases and their use

Williams, Martha E.

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Title
Future directions for machine-readable data bases and their use
Author(s)
Williams, Martha E.
Issue Date
1979
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Future technology trends
  • Disruptive technologies
Abstract
"Prior to discussing my views on the future directions of machine-readable data bases and their use, it is appropriate to indicate the point of departure. The history of the use of machine-readable data bases by the public commenced in the late 1960s and has progressed from a small-scale batchsearching activity, where services were largely restricted to SDI and operators were delighted if a system could be made to be self-supporting, to the current large-scale on-line retrospective and SDI service, where individual organizations are not only ""for profit"" but are making profits and operating with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars per year."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (16th : 1979)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1979.

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1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society PRIMARY
16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.