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Minicomputers and Library Automation: The Stanford Experience

Davison, Wayne

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Title
Minicomputers and Library Automation: The Stanford Experience
Author(s)
Davison, Wayne
Issue Date
1974
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Minicomputers --Library applications
  • BALLOTS
Abstract
This paper will briefly review Stanford University's library automation system, BALLOTS, and the computing environment in which it is imple- mented. The system currently utilizes a PDF 1 1 /45 as a communications controller and uses a programmable CRT display terminal. The paper will consider in detail these two current applications of minicomputers and also discuss the proposed use of another minicomputer to support circulation activities. In conclusion, some of the more general considerations and implica- tions of using minicomputers to support library operations will be discussed.
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 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.