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Development of computerization of card catalogs in medical and scientific libraries

Kilgour, Frederick G.

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Title
Development of computerization of card catalogs in medical and scientific libraries
Author(s)
Kilgour, Frederick G.
Issue Date
1964
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Automatic data processing
Abstract
Various scientific libraries are computerizing their card catalogs; some produce catalog cards and others have gone to book catalogs. At least one library associated with the military establishment is developing an information retrieval system for catalog card information employing a large, high-speed computer. Still, relatively little work is being done on computerizing the retrieval of catalog and index informationwell- known projects being the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) at the National Library of Medicine and the information retrieval system of the American Society of Metals. Both of these systems employ sequential searching of magnetic tape. However, this paper will not attempt to survey these burgeoning activities completely but will report only on the Columbia-Harvard-Yale Medical Libraries Computerization Project.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (2nd : 1964)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1965.

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1964: Proceedings of the 1964 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing PRIMARY
2nd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1964). Edited by Herbert Goldhor.