Toward an Automated Reference Information System: Inmagic and the UCLA Ready-Reference Information Files.

Stover, Mark; Grassian, Esther

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Publication Date: 1989

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Toward an Automated Reference Information System: Inmagic and the UCLA Ready-Reference Information Files.

Stover, Mark; Grassian, Esther

RQ, v28 n4 p517-27 Sum 1989

Describes the development of a machine readable reference information file at the University of California at Los Angeles. The discussion covers factors affecting the database structure, the use of a sophisticated text management system to enter data onto microcomputers, and possible future implementations of the reference information system. (16 references) (CLB)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Database Design, Higher Education, Information Systems, Library Automation, Machine Readable Cataloging, Microcomputers, Online Searching, Reference Services, Systems Development

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