http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1063 18th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1981). Edited by Linda C. Smith. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1125 Applications of microcomputers in libraries Woods, Lawrence A. Five years ago it was predicted that microcomputers would take the library world by storm. As a matter of fact, this has not happened. Rather, there has been a steady, but quiet, grassroots movement introducing microcomputers not only into traditional areas of library automation, but into areas dial previously have had only minimal impact from the electronic revolution. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1124 Technology alone is not enough Wigington, Ronald L. Many have traced the evolution of information transfer from drawings on the walls of caves to inscriptions on stone tablets, to scribes writing on papyrus or other early forms of paper, to "Gutenberg technology." By now it has become trite to mention that computer and electronic communications together represent another revolution in the transfer and utilization of knowledge. Yet I mention it because we have only scratched the surface in understanding and using these mechanisms for supporting human learning and for facilitating human decision-making. We are rapidly approaching the point at which the mechanical and inherent cost impediments of media and mechanisms for information transfer and knowledge production will disappear as limitations to reaching the full potential of information systems. With these impediments out of the way, what is left to inhibit knowledge creation and dissemination are the arrangements necessary to derive the revenue for supporting the information processing, distribution and use mechanisms, and, most of all, the limitations of human intelligence to deal with complex situations. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1123 Videotex: The new information systems Veith, Richard H. Videotex and teletext are terms that are becoming harder and harder to define, and it is usually necessary to begin by explaining what the terms originally meant. Videotex has been used to refer to computerized information/ entertainment systems using telephone lines to tie home television sets to computers. Teletext has been used to refer to computerized information/ entertainment systems that send data to home television sets by encoding the data into unused portions of a television signal. At the receiving end the television set both videotex and teletext can look identical. And both, from the beginning, employed color and graphics as distinguishing characteristics. However, both systems are still evolving technically and conceptually. Newer systems have been developed (for example, on cable television installations) which incorporate a little bit of both, as well as features of traditional timesharing computer systems. In many cases, the term videotex is used to refer to all of these systems that are designed to bring digital data to television sets or television monitors, usually using color and graphics. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1122 Videodiscs Schipma, Peter B. Videodiscs are a storage device for information, similar to scrolls, books, motion pictures, or phonograph records. The medium itself is not unlike the phonograph record, and videodiscs can be mass-produced by a stamping process, as are audiodiscs. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology Videodiscs http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1121 New information technologies and opportunities regarding input/output devices Penniman, W. David Turtle, Howard Hickey, Thomas B. This paper presents a framework for looking at different kinds of input/ output devices, and provides some general characteristics regarding input/ output devices currently on the market. This paper will cover personal-use input/output devices. By "personal use" we mean those things that would normally be found at a user work station to support individuals in their work activities. These devices would also make it possible for them to communicate with one or more information retrieval systems. Not included in this particular group are card readers, line printers, floppy discs, hard discs, modems, point-of-sale terminals (which you probably have contact with every day in supermarkets), and automated teller machines (where you can get cash any time of day or night). Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1120 Technological change and professional identity Nielsen, Brian What I will present here consists of a number of seemingly disparate trails of thinking that I have been pursuing for the past four years or so. Charting those trails on a single map, relating technological change in the information world to the ongoing history of librarianship, as well as to larger managerial and social issues, is what I hope is accomplished in this paper. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1119 Copyright Miller, Jerome K. There appear to be five basic systems employed to protect inventive and literary properties: patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and contracts. Copyrights appear to have the greatest value for protecting computer programs and databases, but the other elements patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and contracts have some applications, or perceived application, to this area. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology Copyright http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1118 Word processer applications at the USDA's Technical Information Systems Hoyt, David R. Since this is a clinic on library applications of data processing, we ought to be able to answer a few very basic questions before proceeding with the topic of word processer applications at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. First, why do we want to automate our libraries and their numerous operations? Is it self-evidently necessary that we do so? Is automation in all its many, varied forms, in and of itself, always a good thing? When is it not? Second, given the widespread availability of inexpensive and easy-to-use hardware and flexible software, what, within our libraries, do we want to bring under automation's electronic control? Should our long-range goal be to automate everything from the reference interview (now possible with voice-activated and voice-responding machines) to the traditional functions of cataloging and indexing? What about management? Can the management of a large library be automated? In short, is our goal to automate everything the librarian now does? And if not everything, then what should not be automated? And what is the principle by which we determine what can and cannot be accomplished automatically? I suggest that we must be able to answer these questions before we can proceed with an intelligent discussion of our topic. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1117 The Microcomputer Catalyst Fosdick, Howard Microcomputer it is a word many of us first heard only a couple of years ago. Yet the technology this word represents holds promise of tremendous change. The changes catalyzed by microcomputing and its associated technologies may alter the fundamental nature of information handling in all its forms. This, of course, means that libraries and information centers will be profoundly affected by this new technology. This paper attempts to indicate some possible directions of the changes prompted by microcomputing technology. However, these ideas are offered only with the disclaimer that technology in this area is developing so rapidly that no one involved in computing can fully understand its implications. Hardware designers and software engineers involved in microcomputing are themselves still attempting to discern the values and possible uses of microcomputers. The only "given" most would agree upon is the recognition that microcomputers will alter the basic manner in which computers are used and viewed in our society. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1116 Telecommunications Divilbiss, J.L. The telecommunications industry in the United States is far larger than most people realize. To give some idea of its size, shipments of telecommunications equipment in 1981 totaled about $35 billion, and approximately 15,000 telecommunications professionals attend a typical trade show. The industry is characterized by brisk competition and a heady atmosphere of near science fiction innovation. My purpose here will be to highlight some recent developments that have particular significance for libraries. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Information technology Telecommunications