http://hdl.handle.net/2142/878 10th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1973). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster http://hdl.handle.net/2142/897 An Ontario Libraries' Network, or Cooperative Entanglement Wright, Gordon H. While I accepted the invitation to discuss the College Bibliocentre at this Clinic, I cannot say that I did so with equanimity. Quite apart from many organizational difficulties, the systems both in operation and in varying stages of development at the College Bibliocentre, have evolved from practical emersion without the benefit of the finite planning or initial test and research proce- dures from grant aids that many others have experienced. This is why I adopted the latter part of my title for this paper. I was asked particularly to discuss the techniques we are using to acquire the necessary input to the various systems. However, if I was asked to underline what I considered to be the major problems facing the development of a central technical service unit, the technicalities of how to input would be the least concern. The major problems are those beyond the technological requirements how to achieve the degree of coordination required and, in particular, how to overcome the financial hazards which face such an organiza- tion. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation Ontario http://hdl.handle.net/2142/896 Utilization of the MARC II Format for Serials in an Inter-University Environment Sage, Charles R. This paper deals with a relatively small project undertaken by the libraries of the three state universities of Iowa that standardized their handling of machine-readable serial records using the MARC II format. The first section deals exclusively with programming techniques and conventions employed in the MARC II format. The second section describes procedures, generalization, and compromises that permitted the development of a generalized packaged program to serve three academic libraries. The third section outlines the early work environment with special emphasis placed on the library/data processing center relationship. Current environment is also described and projections are made about the next phase this project will enter. Conclusions drawn from this project bear on future handling of computer applications in libraries. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation serials http://hdl.handle.net/2142/895 Interlibrary Cooperation in an Industrial Environment Randall, G. E. Interlibrary cooperation in an industrial environment can be described in one short statement-"It ain't easy!" It takes two to cooperate and many industrial libraries are as individual and lonely as a male chauvinist at a NOW convention. The average special library (and industrial libraries belong to this genre) has a minimal collection and is fortunate when it has a professional member on its staff. When a special librarian talks about cooperation within the hearing range of university, governmental or large public library librarians, it is usually heard as a discourse on a one-way avenue of access to the resources and services of the larger institutions. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation corporate libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2142/894 Network--Or all Hang Seperately McCarn, Davis Over the past few years, there has been increasing talk of "networking." This word has meant two quite different things in library usage. First, it has meant resource sharing, efforts to reduce the cost of duplicating facilities and collections through primarily interlibrary loan agreements. Second, it has meant distribution through telecommunications of information services. The latter sense is the more recent, but the older sense is the more important because the telecommunications systems now emerging promise to allow a new age of library cooperation. Before describing this new promise, I would like to present my reasons for believing the fulfillment of the promise to be nearly ineluctable. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation senses of networks http://hdl.handle.net/2142/893 OCLC: From Concept to Functioning Network Long, Philip L. The Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) is a not-for-profit corporation chartered by the state of Ohio to provide a means for greater cooperation among libraries of all types in Ohio and in regional library systems outside Ohio. The members of the Center are approximately fifty academic institutions and public libraries in Ohio. The origins of the Center go back to the 1950s when various efforts were sponsored by members of the Ohio College Association toward bringing about greater cooperation in the field of library service. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation OCLC http://hdl.handle.net/2142/892 Project LOC: Centralized Processing of Local Collections Jolliffe, J. W. Project LOG arose from the convergence of two factors: a growing awareness in the great libraries of Great Britain of the potential utility of computers in dealing with their large-scale processing problems, and a very long-standing need for the provision of information about the collections of early books in the college libraries of the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge. These college libraries are variously cataloged, both in physical form of the catalog and in degree of competence with which the records have been created. Some libraries have published their catalogs, others have barely listed their holdings. The central libraries, the Bodleian at Oxford and the University Library at Cambridge, have no responsibility for the college libraries and no authority in matters concerning them. In both universities, however, there have been movements, over the past 300 years, to produce union catalogs of the collections in the universities as a whole. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation Project LOC http://hdl.handle.net/2142/891 Prospectus for a Federal Library Cooperative Center Henderson, Madeline M. In order to discuss the activities within the federal community looking toward a federal library cooperative center, it may be useful to review the paths by which our group got started on the subject. For that purpose I will summarize the results of a survey of the federal library community which convinced us that the needs of that community would be well served by cooperative undertakings. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation Federal Library Cooperative Center http://hdl.handle.net/2142/890 The Massachusetts Central Library Processing Service Hammer, Donald P. Sokoloski, James S. In the world of libraries and their related institutions, the Massachusetts Central Library Processing Service is an unusual and unique organization. It is probably the only automated processing center that performs the full spec- trum of monographic technical processing routines from the production of selection materials through the ordering, fiscal accounting, cataloging, and bibliographic display functions. It provides to the participant libraries many products such as catalog cards, book labels, pockets, book catalogs, special listings, and financial statements. The service has been in actual production since July 1970, and its success has strongly aided the development and effectiveness of the libraries in the higher education system in Massachusetts. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation practitioner experience http://hdl.handle.net/2142/889 Bibliographic Data Centers for New York State Evans, Glyn T. In the years which have elapsed since librarians began to use the computer to attack some of the problems they face, massive technological change has altered computer design and performance. Technical development has resulted in larger, faster machines, with storage capacities and processing speed factors higher than a decade ago, and a consequent dramatic reduction in the unit cost of storing and processing data. Simultaneously, teleprocessing has also developed rapidly, with programmable CRT terminals relatively com- monplace, where little more than a decade ago, in 1962, a computer manufac- turer announced the first linkage between a Telex and a computer. As a result, the concept of a large computer file of bibliographic data constantly maintained and usable at random by a number of users simultane- ously (or rather concurrently) for a variety of purposes (much like a card catalog in a large library) has become not only technically feasible but fiscally desirable. In this paper I want to describe the work being undertaken in New York State to realize this concept. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation card catalog automation http://hdl.handle.net/2142/888 U.S. National Libraries Task Force: A Review of Data Processing Interests Cylke, Frank Kurt This paper has two specific purposes: (1) to relate what has been accomplished by the U.S. National Libraries Task Force on Cooperative Activities since its establishment in 1967 and (2) to identify areas which we are currently pursuing relative to the "brave new world" just around the corner. Library information networks Library cooperation Libraries --Automation U.S. National Libraries Task Force