Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 18 Issue 1

An introduction to database management systems

L.A. Kurtz

Problems with customized systems in the 1950s led to the development of operating systems for input/output routines. A second generation offered more generalized file management…

Storage and retrieval of bibliographic records: a comparison of database management system (DBMS) and free text approaches

John H. Ashford

System designers concerned with bibliographic storage and retrieval systems have, in the past, followed one of three approaches — simple data structures, with the handling of the…

The AWA URICA System and TULIPS: its application at the University of Tasmania Library

Richard J. Goodram

Discusses the University of Tasmania Library's use of the Amalgamated Wireless (Australia) URICA turnkey system having a library software package running on their MICRODATA range…

An online microcomputer‐based circulation system at the University of Aston Library

Lawrence R. Wood

The background and reasons are given for the decision by the University of Aston Library to develop a microcomputer based circulation system. The development of the system is…