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Automation in American libraries

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Despite its concentration on technical developments in library science, this survey is offered here because it is relevant to humanists for two reasons: first, that humanists all use libraries and therefore need to encourage their evolution to higher levels of efficiency, and, second, that the procedures outlined here may be of help to humanists in establishing procedures for their own research.

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  1. Information Systems Office of the Library of Congress, MRC, USA

    Peter Simmons (Information Systems Research Analyst and supervisor)

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Simmons, P. Automation in American libraries. Comput Hum 2, 101–113 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02404514

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