[PDF] Automated Library Systems eBook

Author : Joseph R. Matthews
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Assists libraries in analysis preceding any decision to automate. Presents a proven planning process, consisting of need analysis, system selection, contracting, installation, & implementation.

Author : Edwin Cortez
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1993-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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This guide focuses on the implementation and management of second-generation automated library systems. It advances knowledge of the field by describing the migration path of library automated systems. Specifically, the book is intended to give practical directions in procuring a replacement library automated system. As such, the text reviews new approaches to library automation which rely on knowledge gained over the past two decades. In charting the procurement process, the book indicates how to migrate the library's database. It discusses state-of-the-art technology such as scanning and imaging devices, and provides descriptions and analyses of telecommunications and networking technology and issues. This book is intended as an automation planning guide for librarians and library administrators. The book expands the subject to include special, public and academic libraries and takes into account the experience of those libraries which have already automated and are now considering migration to more powerful automated library systems. Special attention is given to integrated library systems and to innovative and still-emerging technologies which complement these systems. No other text exists that is written at a level that acknowledges the increased sophistication of librarians with automation.

Author : John T. Phillips
Publisher : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
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Identifies and evaluates commercial software for circulation, cataloging, OPAC, serials and acquisitions subsystems.

Author : Joseph R. Matthews
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Libraries
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Pertains to the consideration, selection, & implementation of automated library systems. Intended to complement 'Choosing an Automated Library System' (ALA, 1980), q.v.

Author : Michael D. Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 1996-05-21
Category : Computers
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The process of computerizing libraries has been going on for the last 25 years. This book gives professionals and students a general understanding of library automation systems. Information about underlying algorithms, file structures, and processing strategies will help readers to evaluate vendor products, build a system, and continue improvement on an existing library system.

Author : Paul J. Fasana
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262561617

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University libraries have a long tradition of sharing the information they house among themselves and of making it freely available to scholars generally. This volume extends this tradition to the modern realm of automated library systems by demonstrating how such libraries can collaborate in developing automated systems and by sharing this information with 1ibrarians at large. The Collaborative Library Systems Development (CLSD) project was a joint venture between the Chicago, Columbia, and Stanford University libraries established in 1968 by a grant from the National Science Foundation. It was formed to provide for an exchange of working data, technical reports, and ideas concerning library automation and information transfer systems among the participating institutions and to coordinate their aims and schedules. A casual review of the automated systems described here, which are now under development at the Chicago, Columbia and Stanford libraries, would seem to indicate that each has developed independently, without cognizance of the others. In fact, their differences are complementary and have been carefully predefined in collaboration; in effect, these differences extend the range of the study in that they allow several quite diverse methods to be subjected to common review. Since 1968, senior technical personnel responsible for systems development in each institution have worked closely together with the objective of testing the feasibility of designing and implementing a common or compatible system. Early in the effort it was established that this specific objective was unrealistic for a variety of technical and logistic reasons, and it was decided that a more achievable objective would be found at a more general design level. Even at this level is was apparent that significant differences existed in terms of philosophy, approach, and scope which could not and probably should not be resolved at this stage of library automation development. The consensus was that the most valuable contributions that these three institutions could make would be to develop individual systems, whose special features could afterward be compared, and which would reflect different yet technically valid approaches to the solution of a common problem. Grossly stated, Stanford's approach is to make the fullest and most innovative use of the on-line, interactive potential of computer technology. At the opposite extreme, Columbia's approach emphasizes using this technology conservatively, stressing off-line, batch-oriented operations. Chicago's approach falls between these two extremes, stressing the use of batched, on-line operations against fully integrated files. The contributions presented here describe and compare these systems. They are derived from the two CLSD conferences that have been held. All the major papers presented at the New York conference (1970) are included, as are selected papers from the Stanford conference (1968). In addition, there is a paper summarizing the CLSD experience from its inception.

Author : Terry D Webb
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1000154815

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Here is a timely book that expertly addresses the current impact of automation on the profession of librarianship in terms of its practitioners, standards, and underlying philosophy. In clear and understandable language, author T. D. Webb focuses his discussion--with practical examples--on the important decision of the location of the computer--at the library site or a remote automation center. Designed to be a practical guide to host computer location, this articulate book also addresses the broad professional issues of library automation.