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Toward a dynamic library

Salton, Gerald

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Title
Toward a dynamic library
Author(s)
Salton, Gerald
Issue Date
1979
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Future technology trends
  • Disruptive technologies
Abstract
The combination of large memory capacities, intelligent front-end devices for user/system interaction, and distributive computing methodologies have changed the outlook for the mechanization of library processes. Accordingly, the current plans for the design of the library of the future differ from the earlier versions. The piecemeal mechanization efforts and the integration of library processes into a single management system are being replaced by the construction of cooperative library networks and by tentative plans toward a paperless library system which would operate at some future time in a totally new environment. The main considerations in the design of library networks and paperless library systems are outlined in the next section. Some concepts are then introduced which may be utilized in the implementation of an alternative, so-called dynamic library. Finally, a number of specific processes are examined which may be incorporated into the proposed dynamic library system of the future.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (16th : 1979)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1979.

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1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society PRIMARY
16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.