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SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION NOTES

-reporting national and international developments in scientific and technical information dissemination

APRIL-MAY 1968

Vol. 10, No. 2

University Library Systems Development Projects Undertaken.
at Columbia, Chicago, and Stanford with Funds from
National Science Foundation and Office of Education

A framework for collaboration on library systems development will tie together work being done at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. The hree universities are now undertaking individual projects for design and integration of comouter-based library sub-systems for traditional processing functions, and the framework will permit coordination—or integration, if possible—of this work among their three libraries. More than a million dollars in governmental funding has been added to the universities' own contributions to support the three individual projects and the over-all framework. In support of the cooperative effort, the National Science Foundation has granted $60,700 to Columbia. Other NSF grants-$200,000 to Columbia and $334,700 to Chicago-are supporting these universities' individual library systems development projects, and an Office of Education grant of $417,490 has gone to Stanford for a similar purpose. The objective of the Columbia-based collaboation project is the establishment of a framework for continuing exchange of data among he participating institutions and for dissemilation of library automation information to he library community at large. Organizational structure of the project comprises a planning council secretary and a planning council of the lirectors of the universities' libraries and their espective project managers. Two major acivities will be the development of a common ver-all system concept and design of a monoraph acquisition sub-system which is generaly applicable to large research libraries.

A number of technical reports (up to 15) vill be prepared and published describing varous task accomplishments. A comprehensive inal report on the collaborative effort-historial development, communications framework, roblems, and solutions-will also be prepared nd distributed. At least one major conference

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will be convened to disseminate the results and to facilitate exchange of information on library systems development.

In the contributory projects, each university is working on its own library systems development. NSF's recent grant to Columbia has as its purpose the initiation within the Columbia University Libraries of a continuing program to design and develop computer-based library systems in a working environment. Initially, a number of sub-systems corresponding to processing functions such as acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, and reference will be developed. The long-range objective is integration of these sub-systems into a total processing system. The first sub-system to be developed and the sub-system to which the Columbia systems development project is directed is monograph acquisitions.

To accomplish this initial objective, Columbia will analyze current acquisition procedures,

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