THE COMPUTERIZATION OF LIBRARY‐INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This article provides an analysis of the “computerization of library‐information technology”. Its author begins by listing the basic tasks in the computerization of libraries in higher education institutions, these being the study of the traditional library‐information technology, the definition of the subject area, the synthesis of the language facilities, and the definition of the structure and content of input and output documents. The article takes as its example the library‐information system which was elaborated and is now in use at the research library of the N.E. Bauman Technical Institute in Moscow, a system which makes use of personal computers. The system as a whole is illustrated with reference to the experience gained in the use of the computerized library technology which is applied in the processing of new library acquisitions and in information retrieval. The author also explores the ramifications of this technology with regard to all the stages in the computerization of university libraries.