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Systems Design for a Minicomputer-Based Library Data Management System

Lourey, Eugene D.

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Title
Systems Design for a Minicomputer-Based Library Data Management System
Author(s)
Lourey, Eugene D.
Issue Date
1974
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Minicomputers --Library applications
  • Systems design
  • practitioner experience
Abstract
In the past, most automated systems employed large, general purpose processors, or very specialized applications software, usually both. An approach employing either method does not support library automation in any but the largest and best-financed libraries. Smaller libraries must either affiliate with these larger libraries or share equipment with nonlibrary applications. In either case, processing methodologies, standards and equipment decisions are made outside the affected library by persons unfamiliar with their requirements. Current technology and pricing make this approach to library automation unnecessarily restrictive to individual libraries and unnecessarily expensive for the library community. Equipment selected for its suitability in library-type problems combined with generalized data management software designed for library applications will make dedicated, self-contained systems cost effective for most libraries.
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.