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Online Catalogs and Library Users
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| Title: | Online Catalogs and Library Users |
| Author(s): | Gilliland, Anne J. |
| Subject(s): |
Libraries --Automation
Library personnel management Online library catalogs Library catalogs and users |
| Abstract: | I want to begin by reading two letters to you which were published in the 1 April 1985 issue of Time magazine under the heading LIBRARY BYTES. The first letter, from Kenneth N. Sharpe of Peachtree City, Georgia, asked a question: I see a conspiracy in the public library. Advocates of computers convinced us that we should replace benign, inexpensive, non-energy consuming card catalogs with expensive, maintenance-requiring, energy-consuming terminals. This is progress? 1 James A. Munn in Milwaukee writes with another opinion: Each time I work on a computer, I am amazed at the potential it has and the abundance of information I am able to retrieve. For the experienced user, the joy of a computer is in finding valuable information by surprise. |
| Issue Date: | 1985 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Info: | In D. Shaw, ed. 1985. Human aspects of library automation : helping staff and patrons cope: Papers presented at the 1985 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library and Information Science: 77-93. |
| Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd : 1985) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1245 |
| ISBN: | 0-87845-072-6 |
| ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1985. |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-10 |
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1985: Human aspects of library automation : helping staff and patrons cope
22nd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1985). Edited by Debora Shaw.
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