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Journal of Library Automation

ISSN 0022-2240

Volume 1, Number 2, June 1968

Feature Articles

Automated Book Order and Circulation Control Procedures at the Oakland University Library
LAWRENCE AULD

Creation of Computer Input in an Expanded Character Set
DONALD V. BLACK

Costs of Library Catalog Cards Produced by Computer
FREDERICK G. KILGOUR

Bell Laboratories' Library Real-Time Loan System (BELLREL)
R. A. KENNEDY

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Feature Articles

Automated Book Order and Circulation Control Procedures at the Oakland University Library (p.93-109)
LAWRENCE AULD

Automated systems of book order and circulation control using an IBM 1620 Computer are described as developed at Oakland University. Relative degrees of success and failure are discussed briefly.

Creation of Computer Input in an Expanded Character Set (p.110-120)
DONALD V. BLACK

Keypunching of an expanded character set for library catalog data is described. The set included 101 different characters. Source documents were shelf list cards, the master record at the University of California Library, Santa Cruz. At the end of February, 1967, some 50 million characters, representing more than 110,000 separate titles, had been punched. Some of the considerations leading to the adoption of this method for the creation of machine readable input are given, and details on costs and production rates.

Costs of Library Catalog Cards Produced by Computer (p.121-127)
FREDERICK G. KILGOUR

Production costs of 79,831 cards are analyzed. Cards were produced by four variants of the Columbia-Harvard-Yale procedure employing an IBM 870 Document Writer and an IBM 1401 computer. Costs per card ranged from 8.8 to 9.8 cents for completed cards.

Bell Laboratories' Library Real-Time Loan System (BELLREL) (p.128-146)
R. A. KENNEDY

Bell Telephone Laboratories has established an on-line circulation system linking two terminals in each of its three largest libraries to a central computer. Objectives include improved service through computer pooling of collections, immediate reporting on publication availability or a borrower's record, automatic reserve follow-up; reduced labor; and increased management information. Loans, returns, reserves, and many queries are handled in real time. Input may be keyboard only or combined with card reading, to handle all publications with borrower present or absent. BELLREL is now being used for some 1500 transactions per day.

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