PEARL -- An Automated Periodicals Control System

Abstract

Some of the benefits derived from PEARL include elimination of the Kardex through automatic posting of receipt of items, a Master List which shows complete holdings to date, end filing location for periodicals, a claims list which provides faster claims response, automatic routing, cross refereces, automatic production of purchase order letters for renewals, automatic notification to Purchasing of receipt of the first issue of a new or renewed subscription, departmental routing and cost data, cancelled, inactive and scrap lists, and improved statistics reporting to improve control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0738056

Entities

People

  • Cecily J. Surace

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Elimination
  • Frequency
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Lessons Learned
  • Periodicals
  • Production
  • Statistics
  • Universities

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.