1980: Public Access to Library Automation

17th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1980). Edited by J.L. Divilbiss.

Of the various trends in library automation today, public access is clearly one of the most difficult, complex, and potentially rewarding areas of development. The motivation may be economic or it may be the desire to offer a new standard of service; in either case the designer of a public access system finds himself in largely uncharted waters. In planning the 1980 clinic, we attempted to bring together speakers who could address both the philosophical foundations and the nuts-and-bolts reality of public access.

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

• Design Principles For Public Access - Ward Shaw
• Interacting With Computer Users: Design Considerations - Allen Avner And H. George Friedman, Jr.
• Determining The Number Of Terminals Required For An On-Line Catalog Through Queueing Analysis Of Catalog Traffic Data - Christine L. Borgman And Neal K. Kaske
• Public Access At The University Of Guelph Library - Margaret Beckman
• A Study Of The Measurement Of User Performance - Thomas T. Hewett And Charles T. Meadow
• Machine-Assisted Browsing For The Naive User - Mark S. Fox And Andrew J. Palay
• Modifying And Designing Computer Terminals To Allow Access By Handicapped Individuals - Gregg Vanderheiden
• Resistance To Technology: Some Examples From The Health Care Delivery System - Allan H. Levy, M.D.

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.