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A Realistic Blue Sky System

Davis, Joyce N.

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Title
A Realistic Blue Sky System
Author(s)
Davis, Joyce N.
Issue Date
1989
Keyword(s)
  • Machine-readable bibliographic data
  • Database management
  • Libraries --Data processing
Abstract
"This particular conference has a long history of providing the opportunity for librarians to join together in their troubles/concerns. In this spirit, the author would like to share, if not her troubles, at least some concerns. My first experience with computers was in 1974 when, on the second day of employment, my new boss said, ""Oh, by the way, that thing sitting in the middle of the cataloging department is our new CLSI computerized circulation system. It was delivered last week. It will be your responsibility to load the data and get the system up and running."" I had to learn fast, and have been learning ever since; in the process, I have become somewhat of an expert on the relative merits of various database management systems, or at least qualified to discuss what you may want and/or need a system to do. It is important to have computer people around to help evaluate the technical aspects of the hardware and system software. They may also be needed to run the system once it has been selected. But, in the final analysis, if the applications programs do not support the activities of your library and do what you want done, it really doesn't matter if you have a Cray supercomputer with the latest operating and database management systems or a Brand X microcomputer from a mail order house."
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 (26th : 1989)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1989.

Owning Collections

1989: Database management--how much power is enough? : issues for librarians and information scientists PRIMARY
26th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1989). Edited by Charles H. Davis.