[WEB4LIB] Re: Please help SLJ: Milestones in Library

[Edith Mary Fuller]

In the dim reaches of memory, I seem to see tables of punched cards in
Circulation at UCLA's University Research Library when I started working in
Reference in 1969.

Edith Fuller

At 12:49 PM 10/07/1999 -0700, Sue Kamm wrote:
>Since Walt brings up various efforts based on punched cards...
>
>The UCLA School of Library Service [may it rest in peace] was one of the
first
>to require a course, Data Processing in the Library, which was required as a
>core course (along with reference, cataloging, and acquisitions).  Robert M.
>Hayes, later dean of the school, taught it.  I think UCLA may have been
>implementing some kind of automated system then (1966-67).
>
>Has anyone search Library Literature or LISA for articles on library
>automation?
>--
>Your friendly CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor,
>Sue Kamm
>email:  suekamm at class.org
>If this Nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our
>destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good
>books in more public libraries.  These libraries should be open to
>all--except the censor.  We must know all the facts and hear all the
>alternatives and listen to all the criticisms.  Let us welcome
>controversial books and controversial authors.  For the Bill of Rights is
>the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
>--John F. Kennedy.
>
>
>
Edith Fuller			
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