1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society

16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.

The sixteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing was held at the Illini Union, University of Illinois, April 22-25, 1979. This conference differed somewhat from its predecessors. Instead of focusing on library automation per se, we chose to look at various manifestations of electronic communication in the world around us (including electronic publication, computer conferencing and electronic mail), to consider present and probable future capabilities of electronic processing and, most importantly, to study the implications of these developments for libraries and librarians. The altered character of this particular conference caused it to differ from its predecessors in another way: most of the papers in 1979 were presented by leaders in fields outside of librarianship itself.

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

• Happiness Is A Warm Librarian - Derek De Solla Price
• The Virtual Journal: Reaching The Reader - Richard C. Roistacher
• The Impact Of Technology On The Production And Distribution Of The News. Part I: Computerized Newsrooms - Mary S. Mander
• The Impact Of Technology On The Production And Distribution Of The News. Part II: Delivering The News Of The Future - Carolyn Marvin
• Technical Services In An Automated Library - Michael Gorman
• Toward A Dynamic Library - Gerard Salton
• Future Directions For Machine-Readable Data Bases And Their Use - Martha E. Williams
• The Status Of "Paperless" Systems In The Intelligence Community - Robert S. Hooper And Susanne Henderson
• A Pilot Implementation Of Electronic Mail At Combustion Engineering - Leonard G. Levy
• Electronic Information Exchange And Its Impact On Libraries - Murray Turoff And Starr Roxanne Hiltz
• Computer Technology: A Forecast For The Future - William J. Kubitz
• The Role Of The Library In An Electronic Society - F. Wilfrid Lancaster, Laura S. Drasgow, And Ellen B. Marks

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.