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The anatomy of failure in library applications of computer technology

Axford, H. William; Axford, Lavonne Brady

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Title
The anatomy of failure in library applications of computer technology
Author(s)
  • Axford, H. William
  • Axford, Lavonne Brady
Issue Date
1978
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Failure
  • Community college libraries
Abstract
This paper is an analysis of a community college district's attempt to introduce computer technology into the operation of its five libraries. In spite of the fact that the conversion from the Dewey Decimal Classification system to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system, which initiated the effort, began about nine years ago, the basic causes of failure are as relevant today as they were then because they are rooted in the minds of those responsible for them: librarians, computer specialists and institutional executives. Involved in the project were five libraries serving the district's five campuses, a centralized acquisitions and processing unit (referred to here as library technical services or LTS) responsible for ordering and cataloging materials for the district's five libraries, and the district's computer center.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (15th : 1978)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright 1978 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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1978: Problems and failures in library automation PRIMARY
15th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1978). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.