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The ups, downs, and demise of a library circulation system

Corey, James F.

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Title
The ups, downs, and demise of a library circulation system
Author(s)
Corey, James F.
Issue Date
1978
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Library circulation
Abstract
The automated circulation system discussed in this paper was in existence in the spring of 1978 when the fifteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing was held. The system was not a failure in the sense that it never succeeded in becoming an operational system. It did become operational and had functioned in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and one-half years (from May 1976 to December 1978). The system was stopped because it was replaced by a larger computer system that could perform known item searching by author, title and author/title, in addition to performing circulation functions. The university agreed to replace the Undergraduate Library system with the larger system as part of the negotiations for hiring a new director of the University Library.
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.