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The University of Chicago Library Data Management System

Payne, Charles T.

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Title
The University of Chicago Library Data Management System
Author(s)
Payne, Charles T.
Issue Date
1974
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Minicomputers --Library applications
  • practitioner experience
Abstract
This paper describes the computerized library data system designed and built at the University of Chicago. The project is supported by grants from the Council on Library Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is an extension of an earlier project at Chicago supported by the National Science Foundation. The Chicago system is large and complex, and can be viewed from a number of different aspects, all important to an understanding of the total. The Chicago system is a large data base system; it is also a library data processing system, a data management system, an access system, and a data communication system. It has both hardware and software components, and it makes use of two computers: one large, one small. The University of Chicago Computation Center facility provides the main com- puting power and data base management. A smaller, front-end computer handles the library's network of forty to fifty terminals and provides a high-speed interface to the Computation 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 (11th : 1974)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1974.

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1974: Applications of minicomputers to library and related problems PRIMARY
11th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1974). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster.