http://hdl.handle.net/2142/831 7th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1969). Edited by Dewey E. Carroll http://hdl.handle.net/2142/846 Programming library applications in PL/I Snell, Betty In February 1968, Simon Fraser University Computing Centre began extensive use of PL/I. To best explain what the library section of the Computing Centre has done with PL/I during the intervening period, I would like to begin by going back to 1968, explaining the problems with which we were faced, giving a brief description of the systems we had in operation at the time and of the systems we had planned. Computer programming in libraries Libraries --Automation Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/845 Development of the Card-Automated Reproduction And Distribution System (CARDS) at the Library Of Congress Salmon, Stephen R. Most of you probably think of the Library of Congress Card Division as a place from which you get a lot of cards or from which you do not get a lot of cards. In a way, these are the two reasons why the Library is now engaged in a full-scale effort to automate the card division: there are a lot of cards involved, and a lot of other things that is, to say, there is more than enough volume to make automation feasible and desirable and not enough cards have been getting to libraries quickly enough. Libraries --Automation Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/844 A librarian's view of data processing Palmer, Foster M. Choosing a title for this paper five months before it was to be given was something of a problem. Knowing I had the broad field of library applications of data processing to discuss added to the number of possibilities. "Testament," however, seemed too final; "confessions" seemed too lurid finally I settled on "view." However, one's view may change, depending on the viewpoint, and, in fact, I will offer not a single view but three. First I will discuss the rather expansive experimental days of the MARC Project, then the problems of getting an actual daily production job on the road, and finally, in a different vein, I will present some ideas on possible future systems. Libraries --Automation Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/843 A quantitative study of catalog use Lipetz, Ben-Ami Among people who are concerned with the management of libraries, it is now almost universally accepted that the traditional manual card catalog must sooner or later be replaced by an on-line computerized catalog of some sort. This is accepted almost as an article of faith; there is almost never any questioning or disputing of its inevitability. I have no intention of questioning or disputing its inevitability in this paper; but there are questions regarding the computerizing of library catalogs which ought to, and indeed do, trouble conscientious library managers. These are the crucial questions of how to computerize and when to computerize. The work I will report on was prompted mainly by concern with these questions. Library catalogs and users Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/842 Bell Laboratories on-line circulation control system: one year's experience Kennedy, Robert A. An on-line, real-time computer circulation system has been in use by the Technical Information Libraries of the Bell Telephone Laboratories since March 1968. In its initial configuration the BELLREL (Bell Laboratories Real-Time Loan) system links two terminals in each of the company's three largest libraries at Holmdel, Murray Hill and Whippany, New Jersey to an IBM 360-40 computer at Murray Hill. The system is designed to process loans, returns, reservations and a range of information queries with real-time immediacy and responsiveness; in addition, batch operations provide multiple reports and other products necessary to the effective control and management of library resources. Basic to the objectives and performance of the whole system is a computer-stored record of the major publication resources of the participating libraries. During the first year of operation, with not all the total collection complete on disk, BELLREL handled over 105,000 loans and 250,000 transactions (i.e., loans, returns, reservations, and queries) in real-time. This paper reviews the objectives and principal features of the system and describes its performance, uses, problems and impact during the first twelve months of daily service. Libraries --Automation Library circulation systems Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/841 The administration and organization of data processing for the Library as viewed from the Computing Centre Dobb, T.C. In order to give some structure to my paper, I will preface it by stating that library administration for automation at Simon Fraser has passed through four phases since 1965 and began a fifth on May 1, 1969. The real situation was somewhat more dynamic and haphazard than I will suggest. Like most institutions of comparable size, our library reacts to life rather than generating it; although we like to pretend it is otherwise when we are on public display. I would like to make it clear that while I will concern myself mainly with tracing the administrative convulsions of the Simon Fraser University Library as they related to automation and the Computing Centre, I really believe it is more fruitful to concern oneself with right people rather than with right structures mainly because people do things and structures do not. Libraries --Automation Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/840 Library networks: Cataloging and bibliographic aspects Curran, Ann T. In The Future of the Research Library, Verner Clapp comments on the "two principles which have controlled the growth of libraries the principle of local self-sufficiency and the principle of sharing the resources." 1 It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that adherence to the principle of self-sufficiency is no longer economically feasible or rationally desirable for libraries. Pragmatic problems of spiralling costs of labor and material, physical problems of space, and intellectual concern over bibliographic control of the burgeoning information explosion all play their part in contributing to the demise of such an insular concept. Sharing in the guise of cooperation, centralization, regionalization is the "in" concept of the day. This concept is not new; shared resources through interlibrary loan, centralized cataloging through LC, and regional systems through state and other agencies have existed at varying levels for many years. Serendipitous development of such programs, however, no longer seems sufficient and the rapid growth of new technologies has given impetus to the development of the more sophisticated concept of networks. The computer, graphic display techniques, TWX hook-ups, and facsimile transmission all portend far more encompassing cooperative ventures than heretofore envisioned. Libraries --Automation Library cataloging Bibliographic control Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/839 The District and its libraries: Tarrant County Junior College District Fort Worth, Texas Corbin, James B. A prime objective of the automation program of the libraries of the district is for the system to provide maximum and superior library services to its students, faculties, and staffs with a minimum of library personnel. In realizing this objective, some specific goals are to provide each library with materials acquired and processed rapidly, efficiently, and inexpensively; to provide each staff with reports and analyses of their services in order that those services might be interpreted properly, refined, and improved; to reduce for each staff member the burden of performing many routine and mundane tasks in order that they devote more of their time to working with the students and faculty; and to remove from the students, faculty, and staff as many barriers as possible to their intelligent, rapid, and pleasant use of each library. The emphasis in the program is, as it should be, on the services performed and on those persons performing the services, not on the devices or techniques used. But the machines and machine methods are not subjugated or de-emphasized completely, for our services are based on staff and machines. Libraries --Automation Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/838 Criteria for design of an on-line acquisitions system at Washington State University Library Burgess, Thomas K. The University Library became deeply involved in automation in 1967. Prior to that time they had dabbled in some machine processing of acquisitions data. The Library's decision to move more heavily into automation resulted initially from growing faculty concern over the continued splintering of both the collection and the location of materials on the campus. Although there is one consolidated catalog for the campus, the serial records information is fragmented between the three divisional libraries. The second reason for moving towards automation was because existing services within the Library were breaking down due to the increased volume of materials being received by the Library. The Library's budget had been steadily expanding, and there had been a corresponding increase in the collection of materials. The systems operated by the Library were thus becoming saturated and increasingly less effective. These systems included both manual systems and semi-automated machine processing systems. It was at this point in 1967 that the position of systems analyst was created on the Library staff, and I assumed that position. We were installing the 360 model 67 in that year and looking forward to time-sharing systems for the total campus environment in the near future. Libraries --Automation Library aquisition systems Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/837 On-line circulation control - Midwestern University Library's system using an IBM 1401 computer in a "time sharing" mode Boyer, Calvin J. Frost, Jack In November 1967, an on-line automated circulation control system was put into operation in the Moffett Library at Midwestern University. The system is designed to charge, discharge, and list all materials in circulation, as well as to detect overdue materials, prepare notices and compute fines. The uniqueness of the system lies principally in the configuration of the equipment and the programming to provide for on-line operation. (See Figures 1 and 2). Through a program interrupt capability, an IBM 1030 Data Collection System (IBM 1031 input station, and IBM 1033 printer) is linked with a second generation computer (140 1-1 6K) in an on-line mode that allows other departments on campus to use the computer when it is not in actual use by the Library (See Appendix A). Libraries --Automation Library circulation systems Shared computers Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT