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LIBRARY AUTOMATION AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
TOM CRAWSHAWIn this article, I do not intend to describe, except in the briefest terms, the LS2000 system, as this has already been ably reviewed elsewhere. Rather, it will be my aim to…
AUTOMATION OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES AT ASTON UNIVERSITY
LYNNE BRINDLEY, FRANCES KRIVINE, BRUCE REIDAston is a technological university, fully committed to the use of information technology within its teaching, research and support programmes. The Library and Information Service…
A QUESTER IN SEARCH OF ACCLAIM
G.R. BALLWhether it is right, in the era of GEAC, OCLC, DOBIS/LIBIS and other available turnkey systems, that any library authority should still try to develop an in‐house system, can be…
LANCASHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY'S INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEM
GRAHAM G.W. DUNBARLancashire County was formed, following Local Government Reorganisation in 1974, from eighteen constituent parts, including the former County and several independent Borough…
CLSI AT COVENTRY
JOHN FLETCHER, BRIDGET TOWLERIn the United Kingdom public libraries are under the control of local authorities, city or county elected bodies, funded from local taxes, with some un‐earmarked central…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN AUTOMATED INFORMATION SERVICE FOR INDUSTRY
JULIA WILKINSONThe Turing Institute has established a Library of the core publications in the field known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this article I will briefly describe the kinds of…
CHOOSING A LIBRARY SYSTEM
D.M. NICHOLSONThere was a time, in the not too distant past, when choosing a library system was more often than not a simple matter of deciding to take the one option on offer, for example, the…