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Wednesday, august 20, 1975 daily nebraskan page 10 Ohio State computer searches libra catalogues "There are over 50 Smiths who have written about history. "Shall we continue the search?" Good morning from OCLC. Give it your authorized Social Security number and it will search its memory bank for t':e book you want. OCLC is a computer in Columbus, Ohio. Four OCLC terminals were added to Love Memorial library this month. They are connected by telephone to the Ohio College Library Center-a nationwide cataloguing service at Ohio State University which records subscribing libraries' holdings in its computer. OCLC then sends the libraries bibliographic cards ready to catalogue in each library's card catalogues. Library growth The four terminals were installed in Love Library to keep up with the physical growth of the library, said Dan Lester, associate director of libraries for technical services. Lester said installation of the terminals "makes operations much more efficient and will save money." Money for the terminals, which cost $3,700 each, is coming from within the library system. The largest share will come from a reduction in staff as employes leave and the rest from lower supply inventories," he said. Expenses include installment of the terminals, maintenance, training of employes and service fees, he said. It costs $1.77 for each book to be catalogued into the system and about 3.4 cents for each biblograpnic card sent back, he said. ' Minimizing cost is important, Lester ' 3 Z . f : t -' nil m wimm'Miiiiii ii i " " '"nT n-.-im.a T ; V.I said; "but improved service is the main thing." v Few libraries Few libraries have programmed their entire holdings into the computer, Lester said. Love Library has begun by cataloguing only new books, but in five to ten years programming will be completed and comouter terminals will replace card catalogues for finding books, he said. New computer terminal in Love Library. Programming is an expensive and time consuming process, he said, because bibliographic information, the Library of Congress number, the title and the edition of each book must be fed into the computer. However, the OCLC system will reduce manual labor costs, especially clerical, sorting and filing, Lester said. "Because of this, the library staff will be reduced," he said. He estimated that over a three-month period there will be six fewer employes at Love Library. Only authorized personnel are allowed to program the computer, Lester said. The Social Security number of those people are recorded in the corrrouter. All other people are classified as "guests," Lester said, and use the number OOG-CXMXX) to use the computer. 'ArchiDelaqo' tops book list Grandstand affects fair success 53 a, on tirket sales for erandstand Freddie Prinze and Jack Albert The Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) Research and Development Division recently compiled a list of the ten most popular books in participating libraries of the OCLC network. Based on the number of libraries listed on each bibliographic record in OCLC's data bank, the ten most popular books in the OCLC system are: 1. Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitcyn 2. Working by Studs Terkel 3. Dictionary of Behaviorial Science by Benjamin B. Wolman 4. Sources of Information in the Social Sciences by Carl M. White and Associates 5. Faulkner (biography) by Joseph Blotner . 6. Perpetual Jeopardy by Kenneth Patrick 7. The Imperial Presidency by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 8. Kind and Usual Punishment by Jessica Mi t ford 9. If Beak Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. 10. Index to Poetry and Recitations by Edith Granger As so ticket sales for grandstand attractions at the Nebraska State Fair, so goes the success of the fair. This year's headliners show a variety of big-name entertainment which should entice people throughout the state to Lincoln. '',' The opening act Friday, Aug. 29, is the Captain & Tennille, whose recording of "Love Will Keep Us Together. recently hit the top of the AM charts. Saturday is a gospel music extravaganza featuring five top-name gospel acts. Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson. the stars of the NBC television comedy Chico and the Man will headline Sunday evening's show. Country and Western fans will have double opportunity to see stars from that field. Roy Clark will perform Sept. 1 and 2. Roger Miller and Lynn Anderson headline the last two grandstand shows, Sept. 6 and 7. 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