The use of punched cards in US libraries and documentation centers, 1936-1965

Williams, Robert V.

doi:10.1109/mahc.2002.1010067

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“…For a period of nearly thirty years after the war, before the maturing of computer technology, most of the new approaches to system development involved microfilm, aperture cards, various kind of punched cards, edgenotched cards, and so on (Williams, 2002b;Griffiths & King, 2002;Henderson, 1999;Casey & Perry, 1951). Indeed it was at the very opening of the period under review that in 1945, though his thinking about the issues involved began before the war, Vannevar Bush published an account of the Memex, an iconic version of what we would now call a scholar's workstation.…”

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Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science

Rayward¹

2014

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This paper aims to discuss the future of information history by interrogating its past. It presents in outline an account of the conditions and the trajectory of events that have culminated in today’s “information revolution” and “information society.” It suggests that we have already passed through at least two information orders or revolutions as we transition, first, from the long era of print that began over five hundred years ago with Gutenberg and the printing press. We have then moved through a predigital era after World War II, finally to a new era characterized by the advent of the ubiquitous technologies that are considered to herald a new “digital revolution” and the creation of new kind of “information society.” It argues that it is possible to see that the past is now opening itself to new kinds of scrutiny as a result of the apparently transformative changes that are currently taking place. It suggests that the future of the history of information science is best thought of as part of a still unrealized convergence of diverse historical approaches to understanding how societies are constituted, sustained, reproduced, and changed in part by information and the infrastructures that emerge to manage information access and use. In conclusion it suggests that different bodies of historical knowledge and historical research methodologies have emerged as we move into the digital world that might be usefully brought together in the future to broaden and deepen explorations of important historical information phenomena from Gutenberg to Google.

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“…Burke, 1992;Bowden, Hahn, & Williams, 1999;Griffiths & King, 2002;Rayward & Bowden, 2004;Williams, 2002aWilliams, , 2002bRenear & Palmer, 2009;Haig, 2011). Gutenberg's revolution still held sway if only feebly through the new information order of post-World War II up to the period of the late1980s and even the beginnings of the 1990s.…”

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Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science

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2014

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“…Experimental models were developed and tested, and they received considerable attention from the chemical information community; however, the machine was never put into production by IBM because of limited need and rapid changes in technology stemming from the newly developing electronic computer. (Moore, 1968; Williams, 2002, p. 21).…”

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Hans Peter Luhn and Herbert M. Ohlman: Their roles in the origins of keyword‐in‐context/permutation automatic indexing

Williams

2009

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“…In 1974, the MARC II format became the basis of a standard incorporated by National Information Standards Organization (NISO). This was a significant development because the standards created meant that a bibliographic record could be read and transferred by the computer between different library systems (Nelson, 1991; Williams, 2002). This was followed by the online systems of the 1970s (Griffiths and King, 2002).…”

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Open‐source tools for enhancing full‐text searching of OPACs

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Sivakaminathan

Kumar

2011

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract Purpose -There are many library automation packages available as open-source software, comprising two modules: staff-client module and online public access catalogue (OPAC). Although the OPAC of these library automation packages provides advanced features of searching and retrieval of bibliographic records, none of them facilitate full-text searching. Most of the available open-source digital library software facilitates indexing and searching of full-text documents in different formats. This paper makes an effort to enable full-text search features in the widely used open-source library automation package Koha, by integrating it with two open-source digital library software packages, Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) and Fedora Generic Search Service (FGSS), independently. Design/methodology/approach -The implementation is done by making use of the Search and Retrieval by URL (SRU) feature available in Koha, GSDL and FGSS. The full-text documents are indexed both in Koha and GSDL and FGSS.Findings -Full-text searching capability in Koha is achieved by integrating either GSDL or FGSS into Koha and by passing an SRU request to GSDL or FGSS from Koha. The full-text documents are indexed both in the library automation package (Koha) and digital library software (GSDL, FGSS) Originality/value -This is the first implementation enabling the full-text search feature in a library automation software by integrating it into digital library software.

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The use of punched cards in US libraries and documentation centers, 1936-1965

Cited by 13 publications

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Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science

Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science

Hans Peter Luhn and Herbert M. Ohlman: Their roles in the origins of keyword‐in‐context/permutation automatic indexing

Open‐source tools for enhancing full‐text searching of OPACs

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