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BOX 69-82 Office of the Information Systems Specialist/Information Systems Office (Deputy Librarian of Congress)
Office files from the Office of the Information Systems Office from the early 1960s to about 1967. These files contain materials related to early automation efforts, including the Conference on Libraries and Automation held in 1963, the King Survey (of automation at the Library of Congress), the programming and systems analysis services provided by United Aircraft for the MARC Pilot project and the overall automation program at LC, and the survey conducted by Nelson Associates for the National Serials Data Program. These items had been placed in storage with the Central Services Division.
BOX 69 1963
BOX 69 Reading file
BOX 69 1964
BOX 69 Automation
BOX 69 Contractors
BOX 69 Meetings
BOX 69 Proposals (NSF National Inventory of the World's Scientific and Technical Serial Publications)
BOX 69 Publications (drafts of LC reports, outside reports) Public activities (drafts, papers contributed to ... or written by ... ISO staff)
BOX 69 Reading file
BOX 69 Conference on Libraries and Automation, May 26-29. 1963, Airlie Foundation, Warrenton, Va. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, and Council on Library Resources
BOX 69 Correspondence of conference
BOX 69 Mumford, L. Quincy
BOX 69 Welcoming address
BOX 69 Introductory remarks
BOX 69 Foreword
BOX 69 Reports (prepared for conference)
BOX 69 "Bibliography on Mechanized Library Processes," (by Edward Mack McCormick) (Office of Science Information Service, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., April 1963) 27 p.
BOX 69 "Libraries and Automation," (by Rutherford D. Rogers) 7 p.
BOX 69 "Automated Storage and Access of Bibliographic Information for Libraries," (by Richard L. Libby, Itek Corp.) (Library of Congress, 1963) 61 p. + memo from Markuson forwarding paper to Mumford, Rogers, Morrisey, Apr. 15, 1963
BOX 69 "The Current Status of Graphic Storage Techniques: Their Potential Application to Library Mechanization," (by Samuel N. Alexander, National Bureau of Standards, Data Processing Systems Division) (Washington: Library of Congress, 1963) 68 p.
BOX 69 "The Automation of Library Systems," (by Gilbert W. King, Itek Corp.) (Washington: Library of Congress, 1963) 30 p.
BOX 69 "Index Files: Their Loading and Organization for Use," (by Robert L. Patrick, Donald V. Black, Planning Research Corp.) (Washington: Library of Congress, 1963) 68 p.
BOX 69 "Index Files: Their Loading and Organization for Use," (by D.V. Black, R.L. Patrick) (Los Angeles: Planning Research Corp., April 1963) 44 p. (edited and annotated)
BOX 69 "Library Communications," (by J.W. Emling, J.R. Harris, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; H.J. McMains, American Telephone Ac Telegraph) (Apr. 30, 1963) 35 p. + unpaged charts, graphs
BOX 69 "Output Printing for Library Mechanization," (by David E. Sparks, Lawrence H. Berul, David P. Waite, Information Dynamics Corp., Wakefield, Mass.) (Washington: Library of Congress, 1963) 55 p.
BOX 69 "Output Printing for Library Mechanization," unpaged (draft? with editor's revisions)
BOX 69 "The Automation of Library Systems," (by G.W. King) (draft? with handwritten revisions)
BOX 69 "Dialogues with a Library Machine; Future Technology Will Permit New Kinds of Interaction between a Library and Its Users," (by Don R. Swanson, University of Chicago) Draft. 35 p.
BOX 69 (Transcripts unless stated otherwise)
BOX 69 "Design Requirements for a Future Library," (by Don R. Swanson, University of Chicago) 30 p. (some handwritten editorial corrections)
BOX 69 "Design Requirements for a Future Library," 10 p. (discussion period—Sunday night)
BOX 69 "Session Four: Graphic Storage," (Discussion leader: Joseph Becker) 29 p.
BOX 69 "Session Three: File Storage and Access," (Discussion leader: Mortimer Taube) 63 p.
BOX 69 "File Organization and Conversion," (Introductory remarks by Verner W. Clapp) 5 p.
BOX 69 "Session Six: Network Communications," (Discussion period; discussion leader: Henry J. Dubester) 32 p.
BOX 69 "Session Two: File Organization and Conversion," (Discussion leader: Albert Warheit) 30 p. (+ earlier draft? 30 p.)
BOX 69 "Graphic Storage, May 28," (summary by McCormick, reporter) 2 p. double-spaced (+ 1 p. single-spaced carbon of typescript)
BOX 69 Conference data sheet (describes housing, transportation, meals, etc.)(Transcripts unless stated otherwise)
BOX 69 "Libraries and Automation," (by Rutherford D. Rogers) 7 p.
BOX 69 "Output Printing," (summary by Harold Borko, reporter) 3 p. double-spaced (+ 2 p. single- spaced, with corrections by Borko)
BOX 69 "Session on File Organization and Conversion," (summary? by L.B. Heilprin, reporter) 13 p. double-spaced (+ 10 p. single-spaced, edited)
BOX 69 "Topics for State-of-the-Art Papers for Conference on Library Mechanization, May 26-29, 1963," (Library of Congress, Jan. 4, 1963) 4 p.
BOX 69 (Transcripts unless stated otherwise)
BOX 69 "AIRLIE Conference, Tuesday evening, May 29. 1963, 8:15-10:30 p.m. Discussion of the paper 'Library Communications,’ by J.W. Emling, J.R. Harris, and H.J. McMains." "(In the chair: R.D. Rogers; discussion leader: H.J. Dubester; recorder: M.W. McFarland) 7 p. (summary)
BOX 69 "Output Printing for Library Mechanization, Tuesday, May 28, 1963," (Discussion leader: Frank B. Rogers) 36 p.
BOX 69 "Monday, May 27, 2 to 3:30 p.m. and 8:15 to 10 p.m.: File Storage and Access. Paper: Richard Libby, 'Automated Storage and Access of Bibliographic Information for Libraries,' " (Discussion leader: Mortimer Taube; reporter: Angell) 4 p. (summary) (+ 3 p., edited)
BOX 69 "Conference on Libraries and Automation, Meeting of Discussion Leaders, May 13, 1963, Library of Congress," (prepared by Marlene Morrisey, Executive Assistant to the Librarian, May 14, 1963) (preliminary schedule, summary of the discussion)
BOX 69 "Summary of the Session on Automated Library Systems, Wednesday, May 29, 1963, 8:40-11:30 a.m. ... Chairman of the Day: Burton W. Adkinson, Head, Office of Science Information Policy, National Science Foundation. State-of-the-Art Paper: 'The Automation of Library Systems,' Gilbert W. King, Vice President and Director of Research, Itek Corp." (Discussion leader: Foster Mohrhardt, Director, National Agricultural Library; reporter: Marlene Morrisey) 9 p.
BOX 69 (Other conference documents)
BOX 69 "Meeting of Authors of State-of-the-Art Papers for Conference on Libraries and Automation, Wednesday, February 27, 1963," (prepared by Marlene Morrisey, March 8, 1963) 10 p.
BOX 69 "Meeting of Planning Committee for Conference on Libraries and Automation, February 18, 1963," (prepared by Marlene Morrisey, February 28, 1963) 8 p.
BOX 69 "Meeting of Planning Committee for Airlie Conference on Library Mechanization ... February 18, 1963 ... Agenda." 4 p.
BOX 69 "Planning Meeting for Prospective Conference on Mechanization in Libraries ... November 20, 1962, Library of Congress," (prepared by Marlene Morrisey ... November 29, 1962) 10 p.
BOX 69 "Meeting of Planning Committee for Conference on Libraries and Automation ... April 24, 1963 ... Agenda." 1 p. (with handwritten comments)
BOX 69 "Conference on Libraries and Automation. Participants." 10 p. (who is coming, alternates for participants—arranged by type of institution; travel arrangements, other special arrangements, etc.)
BOX 69 "Conference on Libraries and Automation. List of Participants ... May 26-29, 1963." 5 p. (registrants as of May 21, 1963)
BOX 69 Report on the Conference on Libraries and Automation (prepared by Marlene Morrisey)
BOX 69 Memo submitting documents
BOX 69 "Conference on Libraries ... Report on the Proceedings." 9 p. (typescript)
BOX 69 "General Summary of the Conference: Conclusions and Recommendations." 13 p. (typescript, with some editorial corrections)
BOX 69 "Summary of the Discussions." 44 p. (most typescript, some copies)
BOX 69 "Appendix I. Opening Address: Dialogues with a Library Machine, by Don R. Swanson." 35 p. (draft)
BOX 69 "Appendix II. Summary of Remarks, by Rutherford D. Rogers." 7 p. (typescript)
BOX 69 "Appendix III. Biographies of Authors and Discussion Leaders." 6 p. (typescript)
BOX 69 "Appendix IV. State-of-the-Art Papers." (not included)
BOX 69 "Appendix V. List of Participants in the Conference." (copy, with some corrections)
BOX 69 (Carbon of typescripts as noted above)
BOX 69 (Photocopy of carbons?)
BOX 69 Publicity
BOX 69 Illustrations (negatives)
BOX 69 Conference on ... Reviews and Comments (articles from Library of Congress Information Bulletin and professional journals)
BOX 69 Verbatim Transcript of the Proceedings of the Conference on Libraries and Automation ... under the Sponsorship of ... Council on Library Resources, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress ... Airlie Foundation, Warrenton, Virginia, May 26-29, 1963. (Washington: Library of Congress, 1963)
BOX 69 "Session I. Discussion of Dr. Swanson's Talk on 'Design Requirements for a Future Library ’ " 17 p.
BOX 69 "Session II. Discussion on Black and Patrick Paper on 'File Organization and Conversion.' " 30 p.
BOX 69 "Session III. Discussion on Richard Libby's Paper on 'File Storage and Access.' " 81 p.
BOX 69 Session IV. Discussion of Samuel Alexander's Paper on 'Graphic Storage.' "
BOX 69 "Session V. Discussion of Paper by Sparks, Berul, and Waite on 'Output Printing.' " 41 p.
BOX 69 "Session VI. Discussion of Paper by Emling on 'Communications Systems for Libraries' and by Emling, Harris, McMains on 'Library Communications.’ " 48 p.
BOX 69 "Session (?). Introductory remarks by Verner W. Clapp ..." 1 p. (carbon)
BOX 69 "Session VII. Discussion of Paper by Gil King on ’Automated Library Systems.' " 71 p.
BOX 70 1966
BOX 70 Automation LC projects—Automation clearinghouse, MARC Pilot Project (miscellaneous correspondence, notes, MARC Pilot Project report #4)
BOX 70 Committees, conferences and meetings (American Library Association, American Documentation Institute, and others)
BOX 70 Organization. Includes: Functions and Activities, Procedures, Policy Decisions and Program Directives
BOX 70 Public activities—Articles & speeches (some prepared by Barbara Markuson and Samuel Snyder for Deputy Librarian of Congress and Librarian of Congress; carbons, edited drafts, copies, etc.)
BOX 70 Publications—"MARC Pilot Project Report No. 4; Final Technical Report Describing the MARC Pilot System," (prepared by United Aircraft Corporation, United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center) (Washington: Library of Congress, October 1966) 157 p. + appendixes (archive copy)
BOX 70 Reading file (letters, memos, reports—not complete)
BOX 70 1965
BOX 70 Automation—LC projects
BOX 70 ISS planning memo 1, 2 and 3 (miscellaneous correspondence, memos, drafts)
BOX 70 Machine-readable catalog record (miscellaneous correspondence, memos, drafts)
BOX 70 System development study (miscellaneous correspondence, memos, drafts)
BOX 70 Progress reports (Oct. 1964-March 1965)
BOX 70 California List (of Books for a College Library; project abandoned because of LC objections) (miscellaneous correspondence, memos)
BOX 70 Miscellaneous (correspondence, memos)
BOX 70 Consultants
BOX 70 Bregzis, Ritvars (University of Toronto Library)
BOX 70 Gillespie, Constantine (National Library of Medicine)
BOX 70 Committees, Conferences and Meetings
BOX 70 Automation Steering Group (LC)
BOX 70 COLA (Committee on Library Automation, independent unaffiliated group; predecessor of ALA's Information Science and Automation Division)
BOX 70 Interagency Committee on ADP
BOX 70 Miscellaneous
BOX 70 Contractors
BOX 70 Inforonics (progress reports, other documents)
BOX 70 Prospective
BOX 70 System Development Corporation (proposed project)
BOX 70 Proposals
BOX 70 Documentation, Inc.
BOX 70 ISO (correspondence, memos, drafts, various proposals for projects)
BOX 70 Miscellaneous (correspondence, memos, proposals related to outside projects)
BOX 70 United Aircraft
BOX 70 Personnel (most related to details, assignments to MARC project)
BOX 70 Public activities—Articles and addresses—ISO staff members
BOX 70 Publications (archive set)—Engineering Notes No. 1, 2, 3 (also memos about other publications)
BOX 70 No. 1. "Problems Associated with Converting Files to Machine-Readable Form," (by Don Rickerson) June 1965. 5 p.
BOX 70 No. 2. "Video Consoles," (by Don Rickerson) July 1965. 7 p.
BOX 70 No. 3. "Input Keyboard Design," (by Don Rickerson) September 1965. 5 p.
BOX 70 Reading files
BOX 70 Jan.-June 1965
BOX 70 July-Dec. 1965
BOX 71 "Mechanization of Services and Functions in the Library of Congress," (memo, March 24, 1960; distribution to other agencies)
BOX 71 "Mechanization of Services and Functions in the Library of Congress," (copy of memo above)
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