Year: 1976
Type: article
Abstract: IT IS BEYOND my talent to compress three decades of activity-especially in a period of intense and radical change in bibliographic control-in a scholarly, definitive manner.Many of the points to be covered could well be the subject of a dissertation.Therefore, the eyewitness account technique will be relied upon whenever possible.This paper is divided into two main parts.The second part describes the major changes made in bibliographic control systems over the past three decades, while the first discusses why these changes have occurred.The viewpoint expressed here is that, left to itself, bibliographic control would not have changed.The changes that occurred are largely attributable to causes and events outside the library field. OUTSIDE INFLUENCESPerhaps in no other equally brief period have libraries been subject to such a diversity of outside influences, absorbed and adapted them so readily and creatively, and so altered the course of bibliographic control.Among these many influences, four broad areas are of major importance: (1) the changing philosophy of information, (2)the data processing and computer industry, (3) scientific management developments, and (4)increasing recognition of the .inequities of resource distribution to disadvantaged citizens.
Author: Barbara Evans Markuson
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W240721134