The Ohio State on-line circulation system

Atkinson, Hugh C.

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Description

Title

The Ohio State on-line circulation system

Author(s)

Atkinson, Hugh C.

Issue Date

1972

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Automation
• Online data processing
• Libraries --Circulation

Abstract

To simply expand the staff and the concomitant files and checkout desks seemed to be both inappropriate and unlikely to receive funding from the University budget authority. Furthermore, due to inflation, the costs of personnel were rising at an enormous rate. The libraries therefore decided to design an automated circulation system in order to recapture some of the lost circulation and to provide a system which would be expandable in the future at minimal cost. As the requirements for the system were designed it became clear that the system should be one which would speak to the problems of its users rather than simply the problems of the library. The most common user complaint arose from attempts to borrow materials from the library only to discover that the materials were either not owned by the library or were checked out. Another common complaint was that to locate a spectrum of materials on such a large campus and in a library situation which was fairly decentralized was a frustrating and time-consuming operation; a trip from the main library where the union catalog (wherein all the books on the campus are listed) is located, to another library would often prove fruitless since the materials were either checked out or the patron had gone to the wrong library.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (9th : 1972)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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