Historical Note: A Personalized Prehistory of OCLC

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) vol. 38, no. 5 (Sep 1987), p. 381-384
1. Verfasser: Kilgour, Frederick G
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Abstract: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...
ISSN:0002-8231
1097-4571
Quelle:ABI/INFORM Global