http://hdl.handle.net/2142/777 3rd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1965). Edited by Frances B. Jenkins http://hdl.handle.net/2142/791 Library applications of data processing equipment at Abbott Laboratories Southern, Walter A. This report reviews Abbott Laboratories' Science Information Services past experiences in the use of data processing equipment for library procedures. In these operations there are three distinct areas where automation is, or will be, used: information retrieval, serials procedures, and acquisition-cataloging procedures. Libraries --Automation Data processing equipment Special libraries Abbott Laboratories Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/790 Computer indexing of the presidential papers in the Library of Congress Perreault, George R. "The index to the Abraham Lincoln Papers is a direct result of Public Law 84-147, dated August 16, 1957, the object of which is to inspire informed patriotism, to provide greater security for the original manuscripts, and to make the Lincoln and other Presidential Papers more accessible and useful to scholars and other interested persons. The law authorizes and directs the Librarian of Congress to arrange, microfilm, and index the papers of the 23 Presidents whose manuscripts are in the library. An appropriation to carry out the provisions of the law was approved on July 31, 1958, and operations began on August 25." The above paragraph was taken from the index to the Abraham Lincoln Papers and best describes the purpose and goal of the Presidential Papers Program. This paper explains how the index was prepared on unit record equipment, the problems encountered, and the solution or partial solution of those problems with the use of a small scale computer. Libraries --Automation Library of Congress Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/789 Library applications of data processing: A selected bibliography, 1963-64 Krikelas, James The scope of this bibliography has been limited to actual applications of data processing machines for the mechanization of library routines. General survey articles have been included only if they deal, wholly or in part, with operational or pre-operational programs. Published material dealing with information retrieval, such as reports of the programs at Western Reserve University and the National Library of Medicine, has been excluded. Libraries --Automation Bibliography Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/788 How to design data processing input records for optimum results Kennedy, John P. Inefficiencies in machine processing resulting from poor card design can be measured in milliseconds or microseconds per record. Even when dealing with large files, this will usually add up to no more than a few minutes per run. If the run is repeated frequently, however, a few minutes or a few dollars difference per run may be significant. For a large library processing its circulation file daily, inefficiency resulting from poor card design and requiring a few extra milliseconds for processing each record could cost the library hundreds of dollars over the course of a year. Libraries --Automation System design Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/787 Index to the Proceedings of the 1965 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing Index Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/786 Florida Atlantic University Library Heiliger, Edward M. Florida Atlantic University is a new upper-division and graduate state university on the southeast coast of Florida, at Boca Raton. It occupies a former government air field of some 1200 acres. The first phase buildings were occupied last summer, the second phase buildings are under construction, and the third phase are in the final planning stage. The first phase library occupies three floors of a five story building, the second phase will occupy the whole five floors, and the third phase (first addition) will double the five floor space. The Computer Center, with its IBM 1460 computer, is in the library building during Phase I only. The IBM 360 system has a delivery date of July 1966, the occupancy date for Phase II. The University now has 1187 students. This number is to grow to 10,000 by 1970. Colleges of Social Science, Science, Business Administration, Humanities, Education, and Engineering form the university organization. Libraries --Automation Academic libraries Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/785 The present state of library automation Gull, C.D. This discussion will cover a rapid survey of the various undertakings in library automation during 1964-65, a brief sketch of how automation reached our national libraries, and the uses to which it has been put, including this author's views concerning the role these libraries must play in the future of automation in all libraries, and some actions worth considering to insure that national libraries fulfill their central and crucial role in the nationwide system as well as in the process of automating libraries. Libraries --Automation Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/784 Data processing equipment and the library Greiner, William E. As it is preferable to discuss data processing equipment in general, using UNIVAC equipment as typical examples of the tools that are presently available; this paper will be concerned with four main topics: I. THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE II. POTENTIAL AREAS OF APPLICATION HI. MATCHING THE TOOLS TO THE JOB IV. RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS. It is hoped that the following comparisons will prove helpful to librarians. Libraries --Automation Data processing equipment Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/783 Front matter including Foreword and Table of Contents to the Proceedings of the 1965 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing Table of Contents Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/782 870 Document writing system of IBM Corporation in the Library Section, Los Angeles City Schools Dodendorf, Mary Seely For the purposes of this paper, discussion will be limited to services to the District high schools during two recent periods: the fiscal period at the beginning of use of the IBM 870 Document Writing System and the most recent year for which statistics are available. Libraries --Automation School libraries Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMT