http://hdl.handle.net/2142/954 16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1107 Future directions for machine-readable data bases and their use Williams, Martha E. Prior to discussing my views on the future directions of machine-readable data bases and their use, it is appropriate to indicate the point of departure. The history of the use of machine-readable data bases by the public commenced in the late 1960s and has progressed from a small-scale batchsearching activity, where services were largely restricted to SDI and operators were delighted if a system could be made to be self-supporting, to the current large-scale on-line retrospective and SDI service, where individual organizations are not only "for profit" but are making profits and operating with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars per year. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1106 Electronic information exchange and its impact on libraries Turoff, Murray Hiltz, Starr Roxanne It has become common parlance that we are entering the "Information Age." We would like to take the reader with us on an exploratory voyage to the edge of some current information-age computer technology that may transform the library. A precondition for joining this expedition is an understanding of the "new world" which we hope to discover and build. It is a societal state in which the library has become one of the anchors of what we call "The Network Nation" an era in which the amalgamation of computers and communications will reduce the time and cost needed to span distances between people and information, and among people communicating, to practically zero. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1105 Toward a dynamic library Salton, Gerald The combination of large memory capacities, intelligent front-end devices for user/system interaction, and distributive computing methodologies have changed the outlook for the mechanization of library processes. Accordingly, the current plans for the design of the library of the future differ from the earlier versions. The piecemeal mechanization efforts and the integration of library processes into a single management system are being replaced by the construction of cooperative library networks and by tentative plans toward a paperless library system which would operate at some future time in a totally new environment. The main considerations in the design of library networks and paperless library systems are outlined in the next section. Some concepts are then introduced which may be utilized in the implementation of an alternative, so-called dynamic library. Finally, a number of specific processes are examined which may be incorporated into the proposed dynamic library system of the future. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1104 The virtual journal: Reaching the reader Roistacher, Richard C. I believe that our mixed record of success and failure described here is indicative of what must be done to ensure for virtual journals a significant level of readership. Our failures have involved people possessing all degrees of computer skill who did not feel it worthwhile to fight their way onto the system in order to compute or exchange information. The factors influencing our teleconferencing successes and failures were ( 1 ) availability of a communication line, (2) experience of the user, (3) the degree to which the user desired to do substantive work on our computers, and (4) the need for several users to work cooperatively. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1103 Happiness is a warm librarian de Solla Price, Derek I want to emphasize the likelihood of enormous change in the course of adapting to the new technologies. These technologies will give rise to quite a new and essentially human need from librarians and information scientists, particularly for the gift of the peculiarly human pattern of thinking. In this little discourse I would like to set forth views which are those of a person who is only a hobbyist of information science... trying to balance the internal and external patterns of development of science and technology. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1102 The impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 2: Delivering the news of the future Marvin, Carolyn For the newspaper of the future, the heart of the significant technological change is the computer's transformation of print production, since the same digital signal which prints a newspaper can be converted to other final formats as well such as teletext, or text displayed on a video screen. Because of the great variety of possibilities for print and teletext, in combination or separately, the forms and procedures through which each of us will receive news in the future, if there is a single future, is not yet fixed. But possibilities that have been only speculative for decades are now beginning to take form in public and commercial information systems both here and abroad. The challenge these developments pose to the printed newspaper could very well transform it. Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Journalism News dissemination News production Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1101 The impact of technology on the production and distribution of the news. Part 1: Computerized newsrooms Mander, Mary S. Publishers turned to the computer, with varying degrees of success, to solve problems which the industry faced as it entered the decade of the 1960s. Once the new technology arrived in the pressroom, however, it precipitated the reemergence of an age-old problem: man versus the machine a problem which dates back to times when a civilization based on the pasture and the plough gave way to one based on industry. Besides its impact on the ranks of labor, the computer, once it entered the newsroom itself, transformed the organization of the press. It has made possible the development of small papers which operate as satellites to larger metropolitan dailies. In other words, the future holds the possibility of a growth of electronic newspaper networks. The task of this article is threefold. First, I will cover the historical circumstances leading to the adaptation of the computer to the newsroom, and give a thumbnail sketch of the uses to which it has been put. Second, I will make note of the impact the computer has had on labor. Finally, I will investigate how the new technology has made possible the development of satellite presses. Disruptive technologies Future technology trends Journalism News production Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1100 A pilot implementation of electronic mail at Combustion Engineering Levy, Leonard G. Combustion Engineering (C-E) has a need for its capabilities to unite a widely decentralized and highly diverse management organization. And it has a desire to provide its management with the best tools possible for their activities. The implementation of the Office of the Future at C-E began with a pilot installation of electronic mail. Electronic mail is the backbone of the Office of the Future. It is the thread that will ultimately link all the other parts and was the logical place to begin our implementation. The pilot project was designed and programmed in 1977 and was operational from January 1 to June 30, 1978. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Electronic mail Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1099 The role of the library in an electronic society Lancaster, F.W. Drasgow, Laura S. Marks, Ellen B. In 1978 the Library Research Center of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to investigate the impact of a paperless society on the research library of the future. The basic premise underlying our ongoing research is that many types of publications can be distributed more effectively in electronic form and that, in fact, future economic factors will dictate that they be distributed electronically. Within the long history of human communication, the print-on-paper era will prove to be a short one: a period of little more than 500 years. Clearly, we are evolving out of this paper-based era into one that is electronic. We are presently in a transitional phase in the natural evolution from paper to electronic communication. This transitional phase appears to have three major characteristics: ( 1 ) the computer is presently used to print on paper, (2) printed data bases exist side by side with their machine-readable counterparts, and (3) new data bases are emerging only in electronic form. By and large, machine-readable data bases have not yet replaced print-on-paper data bases, but this will undoubtedly occur quite soon. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1098 Computer technology: A forecast for the future Kubitz, William J. In order to understand the impact of computer technology in the 1980s one must first understand the force underlying its ever-widening proliferation: electronic integrated circuit technology. Integrated circuit technology's impact on society will rank in importance with the invention of the steam engine and other such technological innovations or perhaps surpass them. This technology is presently in its infancy. Most of us are aware of some of the early progeny: calculators and electronic watches and games. Some may be aware that it is now possible to buy a small home computer for about $700. This is just the beginning of what will become a wide variety of products which will affect every person. The reason? Low cost. The semiconductor process continues to enable ever-greater complexity at ever-decreasing cost. The future will bring lower-cost storage, processing and communications. Libraries --Automation Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT