Design of Library Automation Systems: File Structures, Data Structures, and Tools

by Michael D. Cooper

Design of Library Automation Systems offers the most thorough treatment available on the application of computer science techniques to information management problems. This groundbreaking volume is a completely integrated presentation of library automation design. Complete with hundreds of tables and illustrations, it provides copious examples of online catalogs, circulation systems, acquisitions systems, and serials systems. The first comprehensive introduction to the design, construction, and implementation of library automation systems Design of Library Automation Systems For information scientists in software development, programmers, analysts, managers, students, and anyone dealing with issues of automation in the library or information retrieval, this book is destined to become one of your most frequently consulted references.

638 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

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Michael D. Cooper (2 spaces): sci-fi