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.
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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.
And, in between, there are the
Osmonds, who will present their Las
Vegas-type revue show Friday, Sept. 5.
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