Library Hi Tech: Volume 5 Issue 4

Common Command Language for Online Interactive Information Retrieval

Katharina Klemperer

Because the Common Command Language was designed primarily with the end‐user in mind, many of the now commonly accepted principles of user‐interface design were applied in its…

Industrial Storage Technology Applied to Library Requirements

John Kountz

Automated material‐handling techniques have been successfully applied in industry for over a decade. The techniques and systems developed to automate warehouse operations directly…

Moveable Compact Shelving: The Current Answer

Michael Gorman

The compact shelving discussed in this article is defined as moveable shelving driven, in the main, by electric power. The shelving eliminates all but one aisle in any set of…

Infomart: Intelligent Design, Intelligent Use

Jeff Downing, June Koelker

An intelligent building incorporates two key components: automated building control systems and information management control systems. Automated building control systems include…

Designing Facilities for a High‐Tech Future: The OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Headquarters—A Case Study

Ed Pennybacker

To efficiently operate an online computer system containing more than sixteen million records connected to more than 7,800 terminals, OCLC needed a facility that could handle both…

Historic Buildings and Modern Technology: The California State Library Remodels for Automation—A Case Study

Kathy Hudson

Challenges in modifying an older building to accommodate a contemporary library include many of those inherent in planning for any new building: defining future needs…

Technology's Impact on Library Interior Planning

David Leroy Michaels

Each component of a library requires careful planning so that precious financial resource are maximized, and future renovation costs minimized. Library administrators and…

Common Sense and Keyboard Nonsense, or, What Happens When You Press ESCape?

Walt Crawford

If you use a personal computer, you probably use more than one program and you probably use some programs more often than others. If your personal computer is an IBM PC or…

The Forgiving Building: A Library Building Consultants' Symposium on the Design, Construction and Remodeling of Libraries to Support a High‐Tech Future

Gloria Novak, Anders C. Dahlgren, David Kapp, Jay K. Lucker, David Kaser, Margaret Beckman, Donald G. Kelsey

The most serious barrier to achieving a “forgiving building” is the cost of its special building systems. The library is increasingly becoming a “hi tech” and “smart” building. A…

Robots in the Library

C. Tom Sutherland

We had a robot in the library for a week. We watched it walk about, lurching and rocking. It didn't clank, but it rattled a bit.

Designing Library Facilities for a High‐Tech Future

Jon Drabenstott, Wilson M. Stahl, James J. Michael, Rick Richmond, Gene Robinson, James E. Rush

Typically, library building projects are undertaken to accommodate a library's needs for the foreseeable twenty years or more. With major changes in information technologies…