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Peer reviewedVeaner, Allen B. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1982
Briefly outlines the history of microreproduction devices and media, their changing role in library environments, and the activities of librarians as users of micrographic materials. The current state of the art and prospects for the future are also discussed, and a reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: History, Information Storage, Librarians, Libraries
Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Describes the evolution of computerized information storage and retrieval from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings in theoretical works on logic by George Boole, to the applications of Boole's logic to switching circuits by Claude Shannon in the 1930s, to the development of coordinate indexing by Mortimer Taube in the 1940s and 1950s. (Contains…
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Electric Circuits, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Findley, Paul – 1991
These keynote remarks review some of the origins of Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act. This legislation, whose goal is to conquer famine and malnutrition worldwide, was signed into law by President Ford in 1975. Senator Hubert Humphrey's address at the 1977 Famine Prevention Symposium in Washington, DC, is recounted with emphasis on his…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developing Nations, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
