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Criteria for design of an on-line acquisitions system at Washington State University Library

Burgess, Thomas K.

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Title
Criteria for design of an on-line acquisitions system at Washington State University Library
Author(s)
Burgess, Thomas K.
Issue Date
1969
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library aquisition systems
Abstract
The University Library became deeply involved in automation in 1967. Prior to that time they had dabbled in some machine processing of acquisitions data. The Library's decision to move more heavily into automation resulted initially from growing faculty concern over the continued splintering of both the collection and the location of materials on the campus. Although there is one consolidated catalog for the campus, the serial records information is fragmented between the three divisional libraries. The second reason for moving towards automation was because existing services within the Library were breaking down due to the increased volume of materials being received by the Library. The Library's budget had been steadily expanding, and there had been a corresponding increase in the collection of materials. The systems operated by the Library were thus becoming saturated and increasingly less effective. These systems included both manual systems and semi-automated machine processing systems. It was at this point in 1967 that the position of systems analyst was created on the Library staff, and I assumed that position. We were installing the 360 model 67 in that year and looking forward to time-sharing systems for the total campus environment in the near future.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (7th : 1969)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Copyright 1969 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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1969: Proceedings of the 1969 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing PRIMARY
7th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1969). Edited by Dewey E. Carroll