In recent years the cost of academic libraries has been increasing
more rapidly than other costs of education. Because many functions
performed in the operation of libraries are highly repetitive and/or
clerical in nature the electronic computer has been an obvious candidate
for the task of controlling the inflationary conditions. Many of
the attempts to apply the computer to library problems did not recognize
the size nor complexity of these problems and consequently
failed or bogged down badly. One undertaking which has achieved
significant results is the MARC development which began with a pilot
project involving the Library of Congress and sixteen other libraries
and evolved to a weekly service by LC to more than sixty subscribers
to the MARC tapes.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (8th : 1970)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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