Truth in Automating: The Multi‐Library Experience

Abstract

These studies provide a cross‐section of current library automation activity. They illustrate some of the forces acting on libraries, the growth and development of the library marketplace, and the increasing complexity and interrelationships of automated systems. Above all, they lead to an appreciation of just how daunting automation projects can be, and how profoundly these new systems are changing libraries. These contributors have administered projects in which many successes have been realized in often difficult, but not atypical, circumstances.

Automated library system migration in the United States

“…Several other papers (Drabenstott 1989 et al;Kaplan 1989;Smith & Borgendale 1988) discuss in some detail the trials and tribulations of system change or upgrade; one vendor has even appointed a Systems Migration Consultant. This person authored a brief article, 'Why change systems?…”