Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 3 Issue 3/4
Table of contents
Effect of Computerization on Acquisitions
Frederick G. KilgourThe advent of the computer in the academic library promises revolution in library objectives and economics, and the extent of the revolution will be as great in acquisitions as in…
A Note on the Use of MARC
Maurice B. LineMany librarians seem to assume that most of their cataloguing problems will be solved when MARC becomes fully operational. Mr. Ayres gave in Program an indication of the sort of…
Birmingham Libraries Cooperative Mechanisation Project
R.M. DuchesneReference is made to an article in the July 1969 issue of Program and some statements in that article are amplified. The work plan of the project is then outlined, followed by a…
Use of an ICL Computer in Southampton University Library. Report No. 4
R.G. WoodsThe third report in this series appeared in Program Vol. 2, No. 1 in April 1968. Since that time, the whole structure of research and development in library automation has changed…
A Computerised Issue System in Brighton Public Libraries
John AllenIdeally the heading for this report would read ‘a computerised book order, cataloguing and circulation system…’ but necessity has dictated the present order of events. The…
Computer Handling of Periodical Subscriptions and Holdings at Shell Research Limited, Sittingbourne
J. GriffinThe library at the Sittingbourne Laboratories of Shell Research Limited receives some 700 journals and serial publications per year, the great majority of which are obtained by…
Comparison of UK Computer‐based Loans Systems
C.W.J. WilsonThe Circulation Working Party (CWP) of the Aslib Computer Applications Group met for the first time in November 1968 and formulated its objectives. One of these was the…
On‐line Subject Indexing and Retrieval
L.D. Higgins, Francis J. SmithA working system is described for the interactive storage of bibliographic information on a random access store and its retrieval by a conversation between the user and computer…