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Records, 2000-301 Accession ARCH-2000-301

 

BALLOTS Internal working documents

Box 1

Project BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations Using a Time-Sharing System) Origins, Appendix D 1966-1967

Box 2

Library system notes 1968-1969

Box 3

Data element notebook statistics, Project BALLOTS system development notebook, system requirements documents 1970

Box 4

System requirements documents, SUL proposed aquisition subsystem 1970

Box 5

Tasks outstanding/completed documentation, system books, project control notebook 2nd edition 1970

Box 6

system requirements documents - BALLOTS II, CT system book additions 1971

Box 7

Estimated file size, MARC file May 1971, MARC system development and cost estimates, BALLOTS development schedule, Data Element Notebook v.2, BALLOTS II system requirements, Tasks outstanding - documentation, BALLOTS II system requirements 1971

Box 8

Miscellaneous programmer notes, BALLOTS system requirements documentation, BALLOTS II system requirements 1973

Box 9

BALLOTS II System Requirements 1973

Box 10

BALLOTS II System Requirements documents 1974

Box 11

BALLOTS II System Requirements documents, Plan cost analysis data forms 1974

Box 12

SCIP group planning, BALLOTS II system requirements documents, BALLOTS trouble logs, BALLOTS staff meeting minutes 1972-1975 1972-1975

Box 13

System book for plan parts 1 and II, Plan terminal selection requirements, BALLOTS II system requirements documents 1975

Box 14

Proposal for terminal, BALLOTS system book output samples, BALLOTS system book, 1975

Box 15

BALLOTS staff meeting notes, general memoranda, Stanford University's response to Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) proposal, user requirements for automated technical processing, database properties 1975-1978

 

BALLOTS User documentation

Box 16

BALLOTS system reference manual, procedure for running off computer-produced spine labels, transparencies, PO/OC Pre-training materials, alphabetical listing of BALLOTS mnumonics 1973-1974

Box 17

BALLOTS system reference manual vol II; A Guide to the BALLOTS file, brochures, plan, A Guide to BALLOTS Network Services 1975-1976

Box 18

BALLOTS data element notebook, reference digests and bibliographies, transcript of seminar, BALLOTS workshop for library administrators, BALLOTS memory aid and card profile questionnaire, database of LC MARC bibliographic data elements, BALLOTS newsletters and RLIN newsletters 1976-1977

 

BALLOTS Reports and proposals

Box 19

Stanford conference on collaborative library systems development, Project BALLOTS interim report, Project BALLOTS progress report, System Scope for Library Automation and Generalized Information Storage and Retrieval, Information retrieval (SPIRES) and Library Automation (BALLOTS), feasibility study 1969-1970

Box 20

Summary of feasibility study, technical processing cost analysis, BALLOTS final report, Campus Report, User's View no. 1-3, UC-ILR annual report, BALLOTS seminar package 1971-1973

Box 21

Users view nos. 4-7, invitation to bid USL, minicomputers and library automation, survey of lib, automated systems, task force for library automation feasibility study 1973-1976

Box 22

BALLOTS II system requirements, invitation for bid, SCIP annual report 1974-1975 and analysis of Stanford computing, Proceedings 1st SIG/CON ASIS meeting, ULAP licensing agreement, Stanford response to RLG request for proposal 1974-1975

 

Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES)

Box 23

Computer notes, schedules, and task control sheets 1967-1971

Box 24

Task control sheets; Stanford University Libraries (SUL): Proposal for an Integrated Library System, abridged documentation on manual system 1967-1970

 

Stanford University Libraries (SUL)

Box 25

Studies on present acquisition system, present cataloging system, end-processing, and cataloging department 1967

Box 26

Appendix C - System Study, Vol. 1-6; Library Automation Systems, presentation by Joe Cusick 1970, 1973

 

Reports and publications

Box 28, folder 1

Rosenthal, Joseph A. The Research Libraries Group; Proposals for Cooperation among the Libraries of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities and the New York Public Library. December 1973

Box 28, folder 2

Stanford University Response to Research Libraries Groups, Inc. Request for Proposals for an Automated Bibliographic Control System. October 1977

Box 28, folder 3

Stanford University's Response to the University of California Request for Quotation and Proposal. Universitywide Library Technical Processing System. BALLOTS Center Stanford University April 21, 1978

Box 28, folder 4

A Plan for Development of a Research Libraries Network Based upon the BALLOTS System. Research Libraries Group, Inc., and Stanford University July 1978. Draft.

Box 28, folder 5

Final Report of the BALLOTS Center to the National Endowment for the Humanities on Grant Activities from January 1, 1975 to May 31, 1978. Stanford University, February 1979

Box 28, folder 6

A Plan for the Development of a Research Libraries Information Network. The Research Libraries Group, Inc. October 20, 1978. Revised and Abridged January 4, 1979.

Box 28, folder 7

The Research Libraries Group, Inc. Progress Report. June 1979

Box 28, folder 8

RLG Terminal Manual Zentec 9003 and Zentec ZMS-90 Video Terminals. August 1979

Box 28, folder 9

Technical Report on Linking the Bibliographic Utilities: Benefits and Costs. Submitted to the Council on Library Resources September 15, 1980 by Donald A. Smalley, William G. Griffith, Ann M. Walker, Michael B. Wessells

Box 28, folder 10

On-Line Public Access to Library Bibliographic Data Bases: Developments, Issues and Priorities. Final Report to the Council on Library Resources. September 1980

Box 28, folder 11

Shurkin, Joel. " The Rise and Fall and Rise of RLG." American Libraries July/August 1982.

Box 28, folder 12

Proposal for the Development of an Integrated Local Library System Based on RLIN/ASPEN. Research Libraries Group, Inc. 30 November 1983

Box 28, folder 13

Processing and Data Distribution within the Research Libraries Information Network. Final Report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York on a Study of Distributed Processing. November 1983.

Box 28, folder 14

RLIN System Reference Manual. First edition March 1984. The Research Libraries Group, Inc.

Box 28, folder 15

A Technical Overview of RLIN. 29 May 1984 Research Libraries Group, Inc.

Box 28, folder 16

The Name Authority Cooperative/Name Authority File Service. Task Force on a Name Authority File Service. Bibliographic Service Development Program. Council on Library Resources, Inc. May 1984

Box 28, folder 17

Issues in Retrospective Conversion. Report of a study conducted for the Council on Library Resources by Jutta Reed-Scott. May 1984

Box 28, folder 18

Retrospective Conversion. Report of a meeting sponsored by the Council on Library Resources July 16-18, 1984. Compiled and edited by Dorothy Gregor, September 1984.

Box 28, folder 19

Command Language and Screen Displays for Public Online Systems. Report of a meeting sponsored by the Council on Library Resources March 29-30 1984. Compiled and Edited by Paul Evan Peters. March 1985

Box 28, folder 20

Stanford University Libraries. Library Automation Proposal. December 29, 1987

Box 28, folder 21

Loose materials from binder containing Stanford University Libraries Library Automation Proposal.

Box 29

Donor files, inactive, A-W [RESTRICTED] 1928-1981 1963-1979

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Addenda, 1985-088.3 Accession ARCH-1985-088.3

Box 1

BALLOTS proposals and publications: A User's View of BALLOTS periodicals; BALLOTS Objectives and Advantages of Computerized Library Systems...; Project Cogen Final Report 1966-1984