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Machine-Readable Data Bases in Libraries: Criteria for Selection and Use

Williams, Martha E.

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Title
Machine-Readable Data Bases in Libraries: Criteria for Selection and Use
Author(s)
Williams, Martha E.
Issue Date
1975
Keyword(s)
  • Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
  • Database searching
  • Online bibliographic searching
  • Information retrieval
  • database selection
Abstract
Traditionally, libraries have been the source of stored information the collective memory of a community or a civilization. In recent years, with the proliferation of publications and governmental involvement in research, machine-readable data bases have evolved as separate entities which store in indexed and abstracted form much of the current information found in libraries. As the quantity of recorded information increases, libraries are, and will be increasingly, forced to rely on these machine-readable data bases to search the accumulated knowledge if they are to retrieve it efficiently or at all. Some libraries are now providing data base search services to their patrons; many more are considering it.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (12th : 1975)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1975: The use of computers in literature searching and related reference activities in libraries PRIMARY
12th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1975). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster