Oral history interview with Lawrence Buckland 1990
Abstract
Intelligence data processing, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, 1954-1958; American Documentation Institute: updating of documentation methods, computerization; Itek, 1958-1962: development of data base for documentation, 1960, building of computer to simultaneously record data and produce card catalogs; establishment of Inforonics, Inc.: development of database to enc ode typographic characteristics in cataloging, early text processing, development of first system for simultaneous storage of encoded data while keyboarding manuscript, consultant, Library of Congress: first discussions of Machine-readable Catalogue System (MARC), adaptation of Inforonics' systems to librarians' cataloging
needs, work with processing bibliographies, data-element set design, standardization of formats.
Computer programmers; Information storage and retrieval systems; MARC formats; Machine-readable bibliographic data; Catalog cards; Buckland, Lawrence F; Library of Congress; Inforonics, Inc
Digitized from analog recordings: Original available in the Columbia Center for Oral History, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Note (Provenance)
Lawrence Buckland, Gift 1991
Note (Copyright)
Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991.