An Introduction to Computer Based Library Systems

by Lucy A. Tedd

An extensively revised and updated version of the author's earlier text, necessitated by the rapid growth and changes in the industry. Provides a general introduction to computer systems, including chapters on hardware, software, setting up, and storing and retrieval of information, and describes the ways a computer can be used in library procedures. At the end of chapters there are case studies which describe the ways applications have been implemented in particular libraries or information units. Includes references on international developments.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published July 4, 1984