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AUTOMATION, COOPERATION AND COORDINATION

AUTOMATION, COOPERATION AND COORDINATION Networks as a tangible prospect are matched by resource sharing as a topic of current interest in librarianship. Organisational developments have emerged and attention has been paid to these over several years. In North America the debate has been serious and systematic as outlined in representative papers at the Aslib Conference of September 1977. The development and aims of the UNISIST and NATIS programmes of Unesco indicate considerable international commitment to the two imagos of progress. The two concepts are not independent and are particularly intertwined when automation is drawn in for synthesis. Other technologiesmicroforms, photocopying, nearprint processes, AV equipment, compact shelving and telexare also playing a part in modern developments in librarianship and some have roles in network activities. The computer however, introduces a particularly dynamic inducement to largescale changes in the way of comprehensive and coordinated information policy. Stevens points this up with a definition of a library network as a formal organization of three or more autonomous organizations interconnected to achieve their common purposes through the joint use of communications and computer technology. Of the common purposes which individual libraries and consortia alike aim to pursue access to information and materials is crucial and automation of bibliographic services should be the means of achieving it most directly. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library Review Emerald Publishing

AUTOMATION, COOPERATION AND COORDINATION

Library Review , Volume 27 (3): 8 – Mar 1, 1978

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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0024-2535
DOI
10.1108/eb012671
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Abstract

Networks as a tangible prospect are matched by resource sharing as a topic of current interest in librarianship. Organisational developments have emerged and attention has been paid to these over several years. In North America the debate has been serious and systematic as outlined in representative papers at the Aslib Conference of September 1977. The development and aims of the UNISIST and NATIS programmes of Unesco indicate considerable international commitment to the two imagos of progress. The two concepts are not independent and are particularly intertwined when automation is drawn in for synthesis. Other technologiesmicroforms, photocopying, nearprint processes, AV equipment, compact shelving and telexare also playing a part in modern developments in librarianship and some have roles in network activities. The computer however, introduces a particularly dynamic inducement to largescale changes in the way of comprehensive and coordinated information policy. Stevens points this up with a definition of a library network as a formal organization of three or more autonomous organizations interconnected to achieve their common purposes through the joint use of communications and computer technology. Of the common purposes which individual libraries and consortia alike aim to pursue access to information and materials is crucial and automation of bibliographic services should be the means of achieving it most directly.

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Library ReviewEmerald Publishing

Published: Mar 1, 1978

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