Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 5 Issue 1
Table of contents
Aslib Computer Applications Group: Circulation Working Party. Symposium on Computer‐Aided Circulation Systems. Aslib, 20 October 1970
Continuing the pattern set by the two symposia already organised by Automated Library Systems Ltd., this symposium presented up‐to‐date reports of a number of British…
AERE Library Computer Based Loans System: an Introduction
C.W.J. WilsonHarwell Library exists chiefly to provide a service to about 1, 200 professional scientists and engineers. The number of active borrowers at the beginning of October 1970 was 643…
Camden Public Libraries
R.C. DennissIn what follows, I shall not be describing a fully operational system. The first Camden installation in the new St. Panoras Library has been held up by building delays but, with…
University of Sussex Library
R.C. YoungThe circulation system at present in use at the University of Sussex Library uses a single issue slip, in the form of an 80‐column card, to record each loan. The slips are filled…
West Sussex County Library
N.J. HarrisWest Sussex was the first public library in Britain to have a computer based circulation system. This has now been in operation for nearly four years, and most of you will have…
A Computer Circulation System Feasibility Study
D.G. OwenQueen Mary College library houses about 141, 000 books on all academic subjects serving 2500 students. There are three full time staff employed on circulation work, at least two…
Computerising the Recording and Control of Periodical Circulation in an Industrial Information Service
D.J. Campbell, M. MortonThe paper describes the old method of recording and control of periodical circulation and the reasons which led to the adoption of the computer system. The methods of programming…
Preliminary Assessment of the Comparative Efficiencies of an SDI System Using Controlled or Natural Language for Retrieval
Janet E. ParkerAWRE Aldermaston are participating with AERE Harwell in an OSTI sponsored project to evaluate the comparative efficiencies of natural language and keyword searching of Nuclear…
Editorial
Mechanisation of library and information work in Russia can be described as being at an advanced stage of experimentation. It was in the mid‐1960's that computers became available…
Book reviews
In spite of the disgracefully long delay in publishing this collection of ten papers on the British Marc project, it remains an important contribution to the literature on the…