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Administrative and economic considerations for library automation

Chapin, Richard E.

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Title
Administrative and economic considerations for library automation
Author(s)
Chapin, Richard E.
Issue Date
1967
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library automation --Economic aspects
Abstract
This paper might well be entitled Profile of Decision, for it is concerned with the decisions relating to the introduction of automation in a library. Indeed, several hard decisions are necessary before a library becomes involved with automation. A recent article in Library Journal pointed out that one of our Australian colleagues feels that we talk more about automation than make decisions to initiate programs. Perhaps he is right: the decisions do not come easily. The easiest decision for an administrator to make is not to automate; after all, the traditional methods have worked for years. We are all aware that some of our most able library administrators have carefully avoided automation. Whether their decisions are right or wrong is immaterial, but it is the easy decision and it is a single decision. The decision to automate comes only after a long series of other decisions in regard to specific problems.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (5rd : 1967)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1967: Proceedings of the 1967 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing PRIMARY
5th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1967). Edited by Dewey E. Carroll