Bibliographic Data Centers for New York State

Evans, Glyn T.

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Title

Bibliographic Data Centers for New York State

Author(s)

Evans, Glyn T.

Issue Date

1973

Keyword(s)

• Library information networks
• Library cooperation
• Libraries --Automation
• card catalog automation

Abstract

In the years which have elapsed since librarians began to use the computer to attack some of the problems they face, massive technological change has altered computer design and performance. Technical development has resulted in larger, faster machines, with storage capacities and processing speed factors higher than a decade ago, and a consequent dramatic reduction in the unit cost of storing and processing data. Simultaneously, teleprocessing has also developed rapidly, with programmable CRT terminals relatively com- monplace, where little more than a decade ago, in 1962, a computer manufac- turer announced the first linkage between a Telex and a computer. As a result, the concept of a large computer file of bibliographic data constantly maintained and usable at random by a number of users simultane- ously (or rather concurrently) for a variety of purposes (much like a card catalog in a large library) has become not only technically feasible but fiscally desirable. In this paper I want to describe the work being undertaken in New York State to realize this concept.

Publisher

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

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (10th : 1973)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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