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The manual loans system previously in use at Loughborough is described and the reasons behind automation are examined. In looking at the requirements of an automated system a trapping store is found to be essential to maintain the standard of reader service if an off‐line system is to be used. The Plessey Library Pen equipment is described, followed by details of the programs making up the new system. There is an account of the change‐over period from the old to the new system and the manual processes involved in working the system are explained.

EDITORIAL Starting this edition of VINE on a personal note, I feel I ought to introduce myself as the new 0.S.T.I. Information Officer for Library Automation. I have just completed my Dip.Lib. at the College of Librarianship Wales where I took ‘computer applications in libraries’ as my special option. This course followed a degree at Cambridge, a short spell with National Data Processing Services and a period of training at Cambridge University Library. My interest in library automation stems from the days when I considered how some of the techniques employed by NDPS could be used in a library context. I hope VINE will similarly demonstrate the possibilities of an exchange of ideas between librarianship and automation.