Historical Note: A Personalized Prehistory of OCLC
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| Publicat a: | Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) vol. 38, no. 5 (Sep 1987), p. 381-384 |
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| Resum: | Fifty years ago as the American Documentation Institute (ADI) was coming into being unbeknownst to me, I read a stimulating article by Ralph H. Parker, then Loan Librarian at the University of Texas Library, Austin [1]. Parker had developed and installed on February 1, 1936, the first library system based on Hollerith punched cards. Like the Harvard College Library, where I was working, the University of Texas Library had had, as Parker put it, "Multifarious files... |
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| ISSN: | 0002-8231 1097-4571 |
| Font: | ABI/INFORM Global |