University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Computer-derived management information in a special library

Kennedy, Robert A.

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Title
Computer-derived management information in a special library
Author(s)
Kennedy, Robert A.
Issue Date
1982
Keyword(s)
  • Library administration --Data processing
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Management information systems
  • Special libraries
Abstract
Not the least of the benefits of automating libraries and information centers is the enhanced ability to monitor processes and services, to collect, structure, analyze, and report critical or useful data hitherto largely unavailable or excessively difficult and costly to obtain. Good management of information requires good management information information that is as cogent, correct, current, clear, concise, and complete as cost effectiveness and enlightened decision-making demand. Computeraided information systems offer not only opportunities to gain new insights into the services they support; they challenge the systems designer to build in the feedback necessary to control and improve the systems themselves. The focus of this paper is computer-supplied management information in the special library environment. The particular context is that of an extensively computerized, corporate library network in a large research and development organization Bell Laboratories.
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
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1982.

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1982: Library Automation as a Source of Management Information PRIMARY
19th Clinic on Library Applications for Data Processing (1982). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster.