This paper might well be entitled Profile of Decision, for it is concerned with the decisions relating to the introduction of automation in a library. Indeed, several hard decisions are necessary before a library becomes ...

There are two main thrusts to the LC automation program. One effort, the systems development program, is concerned with determining methods by which the internal bibliographic operations of the Library can be performed ...

I shall try to develop in this paper a rationale for library education that will, I hope, have a direct bearing on certain major issues that have been of concern to the profession for perhaps half a century. These issues ...

What, Exactly, Can be Done to Transfer Technology? The attempt to answer this question will provide the opportunity both for an exposition of what ARAC does and also for pointing out the pertinence of its approach to ...

This volume of Proceedings includes the invited papers that were presented and discussed at the fifth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing which was conducted from April 30 to May 3, 1967, at Urbana ...

Before one can determine the extent of progress in a field, it is necessary to have a baseline to describe the situation at a particular point in time. For library mechanization in mid- 1966, this need has largely been ...