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An Ontario Libraries' Network, or Cooperative Entanglement

Wright, Gordon H.

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Title
An Ontario Libraries' Network, or Cooperative Entanglement
Author(s)
Wright, Gordon H.
Issue Date
1973
Keyword(s)
  • Library information networks
  • Library cooperation
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Ontario
Abstract
While I accepted the invitation to discuss the College Bibliocentre at this Clinic, I cannot say that I did so with equanimity. Quite apart from many organizational difficulties, the systems both in operation and in varying stages of development at the College Bibliocentre, have evolved from practical emersion without the benefit of the finite planning or initial test and research proce- dures from grant aids that many others have experienced. This is why I adopted the latter part of my title for this paper. I was asked particularly to discuss the techniques we are using to acquire the necessary input to the various systems. However, if I was asked to underline what I considered to be the major problems facing the development of a central technical service unit, the technicalities of how to input would be the least concern. The major problems are those beyond the technological requirements how to achieve the degree of coordination required and, in particular, how to overcome the financial hazards which face such an organiza- tion.
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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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1973.

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1973: Networking and other forms of cooperation PRIMARY
10th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1973). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster