Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 7 Issue 1

A Redesigned Record Structure for the Newcastle File Handling System

Michael Cooke, William Alexander Gray

Since 1964 Newcastle University Computing Laboratory has had its own file handling systems for bibliographic records: two systems were developed in parallel for use on an ICL KDF9…

Comparison of Computerised Loans Systems in the United States

Louise McCann, R. McGee, R.T. Kimber

This is the third of a series of tabular presentations of data for operational computerised loans or circulation systems in specified countries. It follows the pattern established…

Cheshire County Library Acquisitions and Cataloguing System

S.G. Berriman, J. Pilliner

This paper describes a computerised book ordering and cataloguing system for the Libraries and Museum Services Department of the Cheshire County Council. The system was introduced…

Recent Work at Newcastle University on the Cataloguing and Indexing of Manuscripts

Alistair Elliot, Brian Jones

The following is a short account of the application of computer techniques to the cataloguing and indexing of special collections which include manuscripts, and to the…