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This inventory provides profiles, tables, and listings describing automated library activities at 103 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions. The inventory includes analyses of aggregate information from individual library profiles which are then divided into three categories that reflect primarily bibliographic functions: (1) technical services (acquisitions, fund accounting, authority control, cataloging/local, cataloging/utility, serials receipt control, data conversion); (2) public services (interlibrary loan, online searching, CD-ROM, online catalogs, circulation, reserve, materials booking, document delivery, public computing); and (3) office automation (electronic mail, report generation, financial reporting). The individual library profiles present information on the operating status of automated functions, number of stations, scope, and access, and vendors for the selected functions. A copy of the survey instrument, which includes a descriptive factors list and a listing of functions, is appended. (MAB)
Based on information and data from 113 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members that were gathered and updated between March and August 1986, this publication was generated from a database developed by ARL to provide timely, comparable information about the extent and nature of automation within the ARL community. Trends in automation are traced in the areas of operating status, locally developed and amended vendor systems, system extent beyond the library, ownership status, public access, and amount of integration; and comparative responses from 1985 and 1986 are presented for the number and percentage of libraries reporting automation status and integrated status. In addition, this document includes: an introduction summarizing trends in automation and changes from the 1985 inventory; the survey letter, instruction and code sheet, and automated in-house systems listing; a listing of libraries and contact persons; listings sorted by function; complete listings of all functions in alphabetical order by library; and comments. (KM)
This inventory provides profiles, tables, and listings describing automated library activities at 117 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions. For the first time, the inventory includes analyses of aggregate information from individual library profiles. The analyses are divided into four categories that reflect primarily bibliographic functions: (1) public access (online catalog, database searching, CD-ROM, public computing, circulation, interlibrary loan, reserves, telefacsimile); (2) technical services (acquisitions, authority control, cataloging/local, cataloging/utility, serials check/claim, serials union list, database conversion, COM catalog, collection development); (3) number of operational and planned functions--1988 and 1987; and (4) computer ownership, public access, and the extent of function for selected functions. Also provided is a detachable page for institutional feedback on the analyses. The report also contains a list of vendors for selected functions; individual library profiles; additional resources on automation; automation inventory contacts for 1988; and an appendix which includes a descriptive factors list, a listing of functions, and the 1988 automated in-house systems listing--a guide for standardized references to in-house systems--and background on the automation inventory. (CGD)
This inventory provides profiles, tables, and listings of automated library activities at 115 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions. The library profile covers 18 functions: (1) acquisitions; (2) serials check/claim; (3) serials/union list; (4) authority control; (5) cataloging/utility; (6) cataloging/local; (7) circulation; (8) reserve room; (9) COM (computer output microform) catalog; (10) online catalog; (11) database searching; (12) collection development; (13) interlibrary loan; (14) telefacsimile; (15) public computing; (16) administrative; (17) database conversion; and (18) reference. In addition to individual library profiles, selected information is formatted into listings and tables of counts, including the number of libraries reporting automation status according to function; the number of libraries reporting public access for circulation, database searching, and online catalog; number of libraries reporting extent of system for circulation, database searching, and online cataloging; number of libraries reporting shared or dedicated computers for acquisitions, circulation, and online catalog; 1985 and 1986 tables showing number and percentage of libraries reporting automation status; and 1985 and 1986 tables showing the number and percentage of libraries reporting integrated status. The complete database of automation information is maintained by the Office of Management Studies, ARL, and is available for searching throughout the year. (CGD)
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