http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1139 2nd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1964). Edited by Herbert Goldhor. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1150 The computer-produced book catalog: An application of data processing at Monsanto's Information Center with discussion led by W.A. Kozumplik. Wilkinson, W.A. Data processing techniques have been applied at Monsanto' s Information Center for several reasons: (1) To lower operating costs, (2) To meet future growth requirements with minimum staff and budget, (3) To provide multiple copies of catalogs and other records for distribution to library users, (4) To use a systems approach in improving operations, and (5) To provide greater accuracy in all records. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing Special libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1149 Possible applications of data processing equipment in libraries Wertz, John A. Conferences such as this one have made it increasingly evident that anyone speaking of the computer and the library is no longer dealing with possibilities but with probabilities. Historically, the library profession has adapted, if at times with some misgivings, any technological advance that promised to solve its problems. The computer has been no exception to this rule. That the computer is useful in the library has already been demonstrated. The librarian is now concerned in finding new applications for the computer within the library. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1148 Development of computerization of card catalogs in medical and scientific libraries Kilgour, Frederick G. Various scientific libraries are computerizing their card catalogs; some produce catalog cards and others have gone to book catalogs. At least one library associated with the military establishment is developing an information retrieval system for catalog card information employing a large, high-speed computer. Still, relatively little work is being done on computerizing the retrieval of catalog and index informationwell- known projects being the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) at the National Library of Medicine and the information retrieval system of the American Society of Metals. Both of these systems employ sequential searching of magnetic tape. However, this paper will not attempt to survey these burgeoning activities completely but will report only on the Columbia-Harvard-Yale Medical Libraries Computerization Project. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1147 Implications for librarianship of computer technology Hayes, Robert M. The complexity of our modern society science, technology, government, business has become so great that its very existence is made possible only through correspondingly complex mechanisms for communication, processing, storage, and retrieval of information about itself and the results of its functioning. This may appear to be overly dramatic, yet its truth is demonstrated by the ever increasing number of information centers, "data-banks," centralized files, and special libraries; the evidence for its importance lies in the ever increasing concern in science, technology, government, and business that these mechanisms meet their needs for information. The nature of those needs, wherever they exist, is that they are relatively ill -defined and represent a great variety of mutually conflicting requirements. The problem is to meet them within severe economic restraints, so that the "information system" does not itself become a burden. It is this which constitutes the challenge to librarianship, and all the concerns of the moment with "mechanization," with "centralized processing," with "economic operation," with "system analysis " are merely symptomatic, merely the evidence of the crying need for professional knowledge of how to meet the demands for information ill-defined though they are and severe though the economic restraints may be. Because librarianship does represent the sole existing source of professional knowledge and operating experience in the field of information handling as such, it is librarianship which now feels the pressure of these needs. If librarianship does not meet this challenge and fill the need for professional knowledge, someone else will, but in the process they then must develop the same tools and capabilities which librarianship now provides. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1146 Computer simulations at the Columbia University Libraries Haas, Warren J. The woods are full of those who have harnessed machines the professional literature of the past few years reports many breakthroughs of far-reaching importance and is filled with one success story after another in such diverse fields as auto -abstracting, file loading, machine translation, and successful search strategies for electronically massaging huge masses of stored bibliographic data. For some reason, evidence of difficulties or of failures does not seem to float to the top as easily. While we have not been at this business long enough to be counted failures, we can certainly lend perspective as far as difficulties go. To characterize Columbia's libraries will help put the description of both our activities and our problems in context. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1145 Front matter including Foreword and Table of Contents to the Proceedings of the 1964 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing Table of Contents http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1144 Principles of computer programming Dickman, Kern W. Many years ago an advertisement appeared frequently in popular magazines which displayed a photograph of a man or a woman seated before a piano. The caption below read: "I learned to play in five easy lessons." We are going to learn the principles of computer programming in one easy lesson. We know, of course, that it is possible to learn to play a simple tune, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and a few others, over a period of five weeks, with practice and five easy lessons. This is, however, a limited repertoire. This hoax that one can learn anything in five easy lessons will be perpetuated by this talk. A few simple, but typical, procedures will be examined, and the corresponding computer programs will be outlined. The characteristics of programs in connection with these exercises will be discussed, but it takes years to learn to perform well on a computer. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1143 Applications of data processing at the Canadian National Research Council Library Brown, Jack E. For purposes of this meeting, it is unnecessary to describe in detail the resources and services provided by the Library suffice to say the National Research Council Library is much more than simply a repository for the world's output of scientific and technical literature. It is a dynamic organization which utilizes every means at its disposal to provide the Council's scientific and engineering staff with the publications and information required in their day-to-day work. During the past four years, the NRC Library has been experimenting with the use of electronic equipment to solve specific problems. The scale of experimentation is indeed modest as compared with similar activities being conducted in many United States libraries. However, we must learn to walk before we can run, and attention has been concentrated on the improvement of those essential operations which, because of sheer volume of work involved, were failing to achieve their objectives. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1142 Western Reserve University computer index of educational research with discussion led by William P. McClure Barhydt, Gordon C. The Center therefore welcomed the opportunity to apply its experience in documentation and information retrieval to the field of education, since it was felt that what could be learned about information retrieval in education might be applicable, at least in part, to the whole social science field. The US Office of Education (USOE), at the same time, was faced with very practical problems in retrieving and disseminating educational research information and realized the potential contribution of an information service. The product of the merger of the interest of the Center and the need of the USOE is reported in this paper. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1141 Data processing problems at the Defense Documentation Center Barden, William This account deals with the trials and tribulations encountered at the Defense Documentation Center (DDC) during the development stages and later the expansion stages of a data processing system for indexing and retrieving scientific and technical documents. But, before reviewing various aspects of the Center's computer operations, some highlights concerning the mission, organization, and functions of the Center should be presented. Libraries --Automation Automatic data processing Defense Documentation Center