Library Information Technology and Networks

Offers an historical perspective of the past 25 years of computers in libraries, profileing currently available processing systems according to their size and platform. The short- and long-term future of information technology in libraries.;College or university bookstores may order five or more copies at a special student price which is available from Marcel Dekker upon request.

Charles Grosch

The decade of the seventies; new directions for library systems - 1980s progress; bibliographic utilities and co-operative programs; networks, internetworking, and standards; evaluation, procurement, and other factors affecting the shaping of your library system; old establishment silicon and iron - the big concurrent user systems; the newer breed of concurrent multi-user systems; microcomputer/LAN-based bibliographic software; information technology - the tools of tomorrow.