Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 13 Issue 1

Objectives and accomplishments of the Network Technical Architecture Group

Henriette D. Avram, David C. Hartmann

Outlines the lead up to the establishment of the Network Development Office to ensure that the Library of Congress participated in national network planning. The work was…

GRIP—a personal online indexing system using a minicomputer

Ian M. Parker, Peter Thorpe

Describes the development and use of GRIP, an online information storage and retrieval system for personal indexes, using a Hewlett Packard 2100S minicomputer. Users are…

Real‐time circulation control at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

K.G.D. Cave, J.C. Hulme

Accommodation, slock, readership and borrowing practice at JRULM are briefly surveyed as also the reasons for introducing a real‐time computerised circulation system…