MECHANIZATION STUDY OF THE TECHNICAL LIBRARY, U. S. ARMY EDGEWOOD ARSENAL, EDGEWOOD, MARYLAND

Abstract

The Edgewood Arsenal Technical Library uses a retrieval system designed and developed for the Library by a contractor. The contractor indexes and processes documents on punched cards, and tapes generated on the Contractor's IBM 1401 are converted to Honeywell 200/400 tapes for use on EA's Honeywell computer by National Institutes of Health and Army Map Service. Search outputs enable the user to obtain desired items from the Library by use of the pertinent call numbers. The addition of an alphabetic printout capability of the existing system is now in the operational testing stage. The hopes of the designers of the system to provide half-day response to user questions have thus far been frustrated by several factors, including the high cost of operating the system and its low speed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0640123

Entities

Organizations

  • Booz Allen Hamilton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Dictionaries
  • Index Terms
  • Information Retrieval
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Punched Cards
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology