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Data Processing In The Texas A & M University Library

Stewart, Bruce W.

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Title
Data Processing In The Texas A & M University Library
Author(s)
Stewart, Bruce W.
Issue Date
1966
Keyword(s)
Libraries --Automation
Date of Ingest
2007-07-27T22:01:33Z
Abstract
The Texas A & M University Library embraced automation as a way of life when it became the first library in the Southwest to employ a Data Processing Supervisor as a full-time Library staff member in September, 1964. The creation of such a position as part of the Library staff was only one of several favorable circumstances which combined to provide the necessary foundation for the achievements outlined in this paper. In addition to an enthusiastic University administration which provided requested supplemental funds for a special conversion project, the Library has access to the University's centralized data processing facility, which is one of the largest such University installations in the Southwest. The Data Processing Center houses an IBM 7094-1401 computer system with 14 magnetic tape drives, two separate off-line 1401 tape systems (one with a 1404 printer), and a battery of high speed sorters, collators, and card punches. This tremendous hardware capability has proved to be a great asset to our automation program.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (4th : 1966)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1966.

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1966: Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing PRIMARY
4th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1966). Edited by Herbert Goldhor.