1975: The use of computers in literature searching and related reference activities in libraries

12th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1975). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster

The Twelfth Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing was held at the Ramada Inn, Champaign, Illinois, April 27-30, 1975. The subject of this particular clinic was the application of computers to information retrieval and other aspects of reference service in libraries. An attempt was made, through a combination of formal papers and demonstrations, to cover a wide range of applications of machine-readable data bases in support of the reference activities of libraries. The papers contained in this volume represent a number of different viewpoints and different types of user. Public, academic and industrial libraries are all represented. Some of the papers are presented by consumers, while others are given by retailers of information service.

The complete text of the proceedings is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Machine-Readable Data Bases In Libraries: Criteria For Selection And Use - Martha E. Williams
• The New York Times Information Bank: A User's Perspective - Sally Bachelder
• Computer-Aided Information Retrieval In A Large Industrial Library - Donald T. Hawkins, A. R. Pierce And B. A. Stevens
• The User Interface For Bibliographic Search Services - R. Bruce Briggs
• NASIC And The Information Services Librarian: Room In The Middle - David M. Wax
• The Public Library As Information Dissemination Center: An Experiment In Information Retrieval Services For The General Public - Roger K. Summit And Sally J. Drew
• Community Information Center: Talk Or Action? - Kenneth E. Dowlin And Elisabeth Fuller
• Machine-Readable Data Bases In Australia: A State-Of-The-Art Report - Dagmar Schmidmaier
• Mind Transplants, Or The Role Of Computer-Assisted Instruction In The Future Of The Library - Becky J.Lyon
• Natural-Language Question-Answering Systems - David L. Waltz
• Have Information Services Been Successful? A Critique - F. Wilfrid Lancaster

The Proceedings of the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.