Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 9 Issue 3
Table of contents
United Kingdom Computer‐based Loans Systems: A Review
R.C. YoungThe spread of systems is traced from 1966, when two were operational, to the present time when there are at least 59. The options now available to a librarian contemplating the…
On‐line Circulation Control in Havering Public Libraries
D.A. PartridgeThe system was introduced simultaneously in February 1975 into all ten libraries within the London Borough of Havering and is the first to provide on‐line facilities linking this…
University of Lancaster Hybrid Issue System
B. GallivanThe paper describes the University of Lancaster Library three‐tier book issue system which separates material into short, popular, and long loan categories. Issues are controlled…
SWALCAP On‐line Circulation System: Plans and Progress
R.F.B. HudsonThe central computer, situated at Bristol, is a Rank Xerox Data Systems 530 and this will be linked to mini‐computers and terminals in cooperating libraries by Datel 2400 lines…
Conference on Developments with United Kingdom Computer‐based Loans Systems: Concluding Discussion
Wilson (Chairman): How much management information will be obtained from the Havering system? In particular, can it be used to calculate stock usage now that the Public Lending…
Management Information from an Automated Issue System: Design of an Archive File of Transactions
C.G. Senior, M.E. RobinsonThe system was implemented at Loughborough University in 1972, with the purpose of using an archive file containing details of every issue system transaction processed, to supply…
The National Serials Data Centre
A.M. WoodwardThe very nature of serials, which are so often subject to changes in title, frequency, and format, poses considerable problems for bibliographic control. These problems are…