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

[Dan Lester]

At 11:32 AM 10/5/99 -0700, Bigwood, David wrote:
>The Lunar and Planetary Institute library went online between June, 1982
>and May, 1985.  We had phone in connections in June, 1982.  In May of
>1985 we had visitors touring the library to review our on-line system.
>We closed our card catalog in 1986.  All this was way before the Web.
>There were VAXNet connections, rlogin, and telnet connections to the
>catalog.

I think you'll find that Berkeley and a number of other systems were up 
before that.  For that matter, the CARL system was online about that same time.

I think it would also be interesting to point out other early uses of 
technology, BEFORE online catalogs.  Automated circulation started in the 
mid sixties, if not earlier.  I think Ralph Parker's system at Missouri was 
<almost> the first, on an IBM 1401.  Someone else did one on a 1620.   We 
implemented one at Bowling Green in 68, and it wasn't the first, though was 
fairly early.

There were also the early automated printed book form catalogs, some done 
locally (UC Santa Cruz was early) and some done by commercial vendors in 
the sixties.

And of course computer printed cards from OCLC and others.

And, one could go back to early microfilm in the thirties....and adventures 
with Ultrafiche in the sixties and seventies.....

cheers

dan



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