COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES: Proceedings of a Working Conference Aslib, Tuesday, 21st June 1966

Abstract

Opening the conference, Mr Leslie Wilson, Director of Aslib, said that he did not often have the pleasure of welcoming to Aslib a party consisting either exclusively or predominantly of public librarians; he hoped there would be more occasions in the future. Experience suggested that serious consideration of the possibility of applying computer techniques in a library or information department—the subject of the conference—usually came about in one of two ways. Sometimes it was possible to take an objective look at a library situation, analyse it and make rational decisions. Far more often the librarian was told: ‘We now have a computer; use it at all costs!’ He hoped that public libraries, as responsible public bodies, might be able more often than some types of organization to adopt the former procedure.

Citation

COBLANS, H. (1966), "COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES: Proceedings of a Working Conference Aslib, Tuesday, 21st June 1966", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 18 No. 9, pp. 238-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050061