Automation and resource sharing were the main themes for this seminar. There is a strong move, especially amongst the larger libraries, towards automation of in-house systems, such as the library catalogue and loans, as well as automated links to other libraries and their resources via computer networks. Not all libraries were in a position to automate and there was discussion as to whether libraries should be working towards automation. Though it was suggested that benefits inevitably flow on from automation and perhaps every library should move towards automation as a principle. There was also discussion on information retrieval and the bibliographic data bases which are available for information searching, for example Ausinet and Scale.
Held at the Australian Institute of Criminology on 27-30 March, 1984.
(AIC seminar. Report; no. 1)
Contents
- Preface
- Synopsis
- Opening remarks
- Plenary session - Tuesday 27 March
- Australian Bibliographic Network: its philosophy of service with particular reference to special libraries
- Word processing, data base management systems, or information storage and retrieval systems - which?
- Defence scientific and technical research information
- Plenary session - Wednesday 28 March
- Automated cataloguing alternatives and information retrieval for special libraries
- Automated cataloguing futures
- Panel discussion of previous session
- Prison libraries in Western Australia
- Fremantle Prison library
- Computerised legal data bases
- CLIRS developments
- Demonstration of on-line data bases
- Panel information session - Friday 30 March
- CINCH
- Criminal justice statistics
- Survey of legal materials
- Resource sharing
- Special interest group reports
- Police libraries
- Corrections libraries
- Courts, university and law libraries
- Resolutions of the seminar
- Closing remarks
- Appendix A: Seminar program
- Appendix B: List of participants