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Problems and failures in library automation: Papers presented at the 1978 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 23-26, 1978

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Title
Problems and failures in library automation: Papers presented at the 1978 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 23-26, 1978
Contributor(s)
Lancaster, F.W.
Issue Date
1978
Keyword(s)
  • Library science --Data processing --Congresses
  • Libraries --Automation --Congresses
Abstract
The Fifteenth Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing was held April 23-26, 1978, at the Illini Union Building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At earlier clinics the papers were almost exclusively positive in their views of library automation. They reported successes rather than failures and benefits rather than problems. For the 1978 clinic, however, an attempt was made to find speakers willing to present the other side of the coin. The papers in the present volume, therefore, deal with problems or, in some cases, downright failures in the automation of various facets of library service. They range from Veaner's general survey of failures/limitations in library automation as a whole to case studies of failures or problems encountered in specific applications or environments. It is perhaps not too surprising to find that the most abject failures are attributable more to management ineptness and bureaucratic bungling than to inadequacies in existing technology. This volume is presented in the hope that the library profession can learn at least as much from its failures as it can from its successes.
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 owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1978.

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15th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1978). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.