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How to design data processing input records for optimum results

Kennedy, John P.

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Title
How to design data processing input records for optimum results
Author(s)
Kennedy, John P.
Issue Date
1965
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • System design
Abstract
Inefficiencies in machine processing resulting from poor card design can be measured in milliseconds or microseconds per record. Even when dealing with large files, this will usually add up to no more than a few minutes per run. If the run is repeated frequently, however, a few minutes or a few dollars difference per run may be significant. For a large library processing its circulation file daily, inefficiency resulting from poor card design and requiring a few extra milliseconds for processing each record could cost the library hundreds of dollars over the course of a 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 (3rd : 1965)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Copyright 1965 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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1965: Proceedings of the 1965 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing PRIMARY
3rd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1965). Edited by Frances B. Jenkins