Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 3 Issue 1

A New Computer‐Based Current Awareness Service

Helen Townley

This paper describes a suite of programs designed to produce subject indexes and current awareness bulletins. Output can be by line printer or by photo‐typesetting. Cumulative…

Periodical Records on Punched Cards at AERE Library, Harwell

S.M. Bishop

The periodical and serial publications for the main library at AERE and for its eighteen divisional libraries are all purchased, processed and catalogued centrally by the…

Computer‐Produced Catalogues at Rand Afrikaans University

Ho Zastrauz

On 12 September 1968, a computer‐produced library book catalogue was taken into use at the Rand Afrikaans University. This catalogue, which replaces the conventional card…

Making the most of MARC; its use for Selection, Acquisitions and Cataloguing

F.H. Ayres

Procedures are discussed by which all types of libraries irrespective of size can use Marc tapes effectively. Based on the planning for the second stage of the AWRE AMCOS system…