The challenge of the eighties — the comprehensive electronic service system (CESS)

Abstract

This paper addresses the concept of automated library systems of the 1980s as a marriage of traditional bibliographic transaction processing applications and those now emerging under the rubric of the advanced office system. This is the concept of CESS—the Comprehensive Electronic Service System for the library or information center. The basis of CESS will be a distributed data processing system eventually linking the local library, via computer to computer communication, to institutional parent, regional and national level systems and their associated services. Functional application distribution for this system is discussed with Computer Consoles, Inc., Office Power and Prime Computer, Inc., Prime Office Automation System (POAS) used to show the office automation capabilities and their integration aspects with online bibliographic systems for the library. Present and near term solutions to creating CESS concept systems are presented.

Citation

Grosch, A.N. (1983), "The challenge of the eighties — the comprehensive electronic service system (CESS)", The Electronic Library, Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 117-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044593