The degree of sophistication of an organization's information system is
indicated by its placement in the stages of evolution of general information
systems. The first stage is the automation of clerical tasks. The second stage
is redesign of the system and subsystem integration. The third stage is
support for middle management decisions, and the fourth stage is support
for top level, decision-making.
1 The library community has progressed
through the stage of automating clerical functions. There are computerized
systems for almost all such systems in libraries. These systems are not
in operation in every library, nor are all of the systems in operation in any
single library but the pieces are there. Libraries are just starting into the
second stage systems redesign and integration. There are a handful of
libraries that have implemented major portions of an integrated system.
There are even fewer libraries that have reached the third stage and almost
no library that has reached the fourth stage.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (19th : 1982)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
en
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