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Title: | Future directions for machine-readable data bases and their use |
Author(s): | Williams, Martha E. |
Subject(s): | Libraries --Automation
Library science --Data processing Future technology trends Disruptive technologies |
Abstract: | 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. |
Issue Date: | 1979 |
Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Citation Info: | In The role of the library in an electronic society: Papers presented at the 1979 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, ed. F.W. Lancaster. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library Science: 82-93. |
Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (16th : 1979) |
Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1107 |
ISBN: | 0-87845-053-X |
ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1979. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-02 |
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1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society
16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.