| Title: | Data Processing In The Texas A & M University Library |
| Author(s): | Stewart, Bruce W. |
| Subject(s): | Libraries --Automation |
| Abstract: | The Texas A & M University Library embraced automation as a
way of life when it became the first library in the Southwest to employ
a Data Processing Supervisor as a full-time Library staff member in
September, 1964. The creation of such a position as part of the Library
staff was only one of several favorable circumstances which
combined to provide the necessary foundation for the achievements
outlined in this paper.
In addition to an enthusiastic University administration which
provided requested supplemental funds for a special conversion project,
the Library has access to the University's centralized data processing
facility, which is one of the largest such University installations
in the Southwest. The Data Processing Center houses an IBM
7094-1401 computer system with 14 magnetic tape drives, two separate
off-line 1401 tape systems (one with a 1404 printer), and a battery
of high speed sorters, collators, and card punches. This tremendous
hardware capability has proved to be a great asset to our automation
program. |
| Issue Date: | 1966 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Info: | In H. Goldhor (ed). 1966. Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library Science: 167-194. |
| Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (4th : 1966) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1765 |
| ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1966. |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-27 |
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