http://hdl.handle.net/2142/793 5th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1967). Edited by Dewey E. Carroll http://hdl.handle.net/2142/804 Computerized book catalogs and their effects on integrated library data processing: Research and progress at the Los Angeles County Public Library Zuckerman, Ronald A. Fashions in library catalogs change with current academicadministrative climate, technological advances, and the socioeconomic well-being of a society. Book catalogs were supreme in the rarefied quill pen era. The typewriter, coupled with emerging professionalism, brought card catalogs to full flower. Equipment breakthroughs, the ever- increasing "information explosion," and expanding mass interest in libraries have brought about a revival in catalog experimentation. As systems become more complex, the need for long-range planning grows dramatically. If automatic data processing (ADP) is to be used successfully and selectively, library administrators must increasingly approach individual applications within a framework of integrated data processing. Libraries --Automation Public libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/803 Education and library automation Swanson, Don R. I shall try to develop in this paper a rationale for library education that will, I hope, have a direct bearing on certain major issues that have been of concern to the profession for perhaps half a century. These issues are reflected in questions such as: How much of the work performed by librarians really requires professional education; are professional librarians used effectively ? Is it practical to expect library education to deal in depth with subject specialities? If subject depth is acquired at the undergraduate level, let us say in chemistry, can the library profession hope to attract the better students, or is it more likely to attract those who have been unsuccessful in coping with their initially chosen specialty? That is, do not those who do well in chemistry usually become chemists ? What undergraduate specialty does indeed constitute the best preparation for graduate study in librarianship ? Is there a science underlying "library science"? What does all this have to do with automation and data processing? Libraries --Automation Library and information science education http://hdl.handle.net/2142/802 Prospects and problems in designing image oriented information systems Ray, S.R. There are slowly maturing and growing about us today a number of techniques which are likely to have a very significant effect upon the implementation of information systems in the near future. One of these techniques is pictorial data handling and interpretation, which is a subclass of the general area called pattern recognition. Pictorial data processing first became volumetrically significant in the case of photographic output of synchrotron bubble chambers which now deliver several million photographs per year. More recently, a surge of interest has developed in automatic interpretation of biological, medical, and weather satellite pictorial data. The automatic scanning of microscopic slides for the purpose of identifying certain morphological characters is an example of a rather complex task in the area of biological/medical laboratory automation. Some new viewpoints have begun to emerge from the experience of grappling with large volume pictorial data handling problems. Information systems Image based information systems Pattern recognition http://hdl.handle.net/2142/801 An integrated computer-based bibliographic data system for a large university library: Problems and progress at the University of Chicago Payne, Charles T. The University of Chicago Library is working on a project for the development of an integrated, computer-based, bibliographical data system for a large university library. This project title is awkward, but it is descriptive, and it stresses some important features of the project: (1) a third generation computer with randomaccess disk files and remote terminal access capability is being used to implement a real-time library data processing system; (2) the library system design is based on the operational requirements of a large university library and does not attempt to solve the problems of other types of libraries nor those of national systems; (3) the system is highly integrated in that all processing data for the technical processing operations (acquisitions, cataloging, binding, etc.), as well as bibliographic descriptive data, are handled in a single system; and (4) the title emphasizes, we hope, that this work is developmental and experimental. Libraries --Automation Bibliographic control Academic libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/800 Aspects of automation viewed from the Library of Congress Markuson, Barbara Evans There are two main thrusts to the LC automation program. One effort, the systems development program, is concerned with determining methods by which the internal bibliographic operations of the Library can be performed more efficiently with computer assistance. The second area of intensive effort is the development of a standard format for the interlibrary transmission of bibliographic data in machine-processable form. These two activities will be discussed in detail. Libraries --Automation Library of Congress http://hdl.handle.net/2142/799 The Special Libraries Association-American Library Association/Library Technology Program Survey of Library Automation Activities: A summary review Jackson, Eugene B. Before one can determine the extent of progress in a field, it is necessary to have a baseline to describe the situation at a particular point in time. For library mechanization in mid- 1966, this need has largely been filled by the Survey under review. Libraries --Automation Special libraries Public libraries Academic libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/798 An administrator's approach to automation at the Prince George's County (Maryland) Memorial Library Hage, Elizabeth B. Prince George's County Memorial Library has been bitten hard by the automation bug, and it is one bug we are eager to cultivate. We began some two years ago, but I do not want to give the false impression that this paper will be full of technical information. I know little about this binary business. However, the planners of this clinic were kind enough to say that what they were interested in having was the approach to automation of just such a technically ignorant library administrator. Libraries --Automation Library administration Public libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/797 Front matter including Foreword and Table of Contents to the Proceedings of the 1967 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing Table of Contents http://hdl.handle.net/2142/796 Information services and operations of the Aerospace Research Applications Center (ARAC) Counts, Richard W. What, Exactly, Can be Done to Transfer Technology? The attempt to answer this question will provide the opportunity both for an exposition of what ARAC does and also for pointing out the pertinence of its approach to problems which do exist, and probably will become evident in connection with library operations in the near future. Libraries --Automation Special libraries Technology transfer http://hdl.handle.net/2142/795 Administrative and economic considerations for library automation Chapin, Richard E. This paper might well be entitled Profile of Decision, for it is concerned with the decisions relating to the introduction of automation in a library. Indeed, several hard decisions are necessary before a library becomes involved with automation. A recent article in Library Journal pointed out that one of our Australian colleagues feels that we talk more about automation than make decisions to initiate programs. Perhaps he is right: the decisions do not come easily. The easiest decision for an administrator to make is not to automate; after all, the traditional methods have worked for years. We are all aware that some of our most able library administrators have carefully avoided automation. Whether their decisions are right or wrong is immaterial, but it is the easy decision and it is a single decision. The decision to automate comes only after a long series of other decisions in regard to specific problems. Libraries --Automation Library automation --Economic aspects