Library automation in the Netherlands and Pica

Abstract

The Pica Library Automation Network originated from a research project on catalogue automation on behalf of some Dutch research libraries in the years 1969–1975. The name Pica derives from this project: Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation. Since 1976 Pica has been a non‐profit‐organisation, sponsored by the Dutch government, for the realisation of an online automated library network in The Netherlands, based on a centralised bibliographic database in which information is stored only once. Satellite library systems as well as other associated systems are provided with information from this central database. Duplication of efforts needs to be eliminated. In 1983 the following Pica‐systems became operational:

Citation

Bossers, A. and Van Muyen, M. (1984), "Library automation in the Netherlands and Pica", The Electronic Library, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 87-99. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044615