In the spring of 1983 library director Ron Kozlowski announced he would ask the board of trustees for $600,000 to buy a computer and other equipment to automate the library system. The computer system would help the library keep track of the more than 1 million books, records, films, videos and other materials. It would also streamline a circulation system that hadn't changed much since 1906.
He said, "We haven't had an inventory since about 1917. If we tried, we'd have to close down for more than a month."
The card catalogs stayed with us until staff had had a chance to catalog alot of the collection.
The 2nd phase of the project was to add computer terminals for the public. These consisted of terminals where the staff (at main, anyway) would load cd-roms from Infotrac each month. This was our first automated magazine index.
I will probably post more on this later!
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