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The Minicomputer and the Computer Gap for Libraries

Curley, Walter W.

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Title
The Minicomputer and the Computer Gap for Libraries
Author(s)
Curley, Walter W.
Issue Date
1974
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Minicomputers --Library applications
Abstract
Much has been written on the use of computers in libraries but until recently the promise has exceeded the performance. Colleges and universities, by virtue of equipment on campus and the fact that in many instances research-oriented faculties were present, made progress through the 1960s and even into the early 1970s. Public libraries found it considerably more difficult and their progress was mostly with tab card equipment in which they struggled with report-oriented systems. For decades transaction card circulation control systems using the punched card in one form or another have been used in a variety of libraries, both public and academic.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (11th : 1974)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1974.

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1974: Applications of minicomputers to library and related problems PRIMARY
11th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1974). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster.