Records, 2000-301 Accession ARCH-2000-301
BALLOTS Internal working documents
Project BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations Using a Time-Sharing System) Origins, Appendix D 1966-1967
Library system notes 1968-1969
Data element notebook statistics, Project BALLOTS system development notebook, system requirements documents 1970
System requirements documents, SUL proposed aquisition subsystem 1970
Tasks outstanding/completed documentation, system books, project control notebook 2nd edition 1970
system requirements documents - BALLOTS II, CT system book additions 1971
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
Miscellaneous programmer notes, BALLOTS system requirements documentation, BALLOTS II system requirements 1973
BALLOTS II System Requirements 1973
BALLOTS II System Requirements documents 1974
BALLOTS II System Requirements documents, Plan cost analysis data forms 1974
SCIP group planning, BALLOTS II system requirements documents, BALLOTS trouble logs, BALLOTS staff meeting minutes 1972-1975 1972-1975
System book for plan parts 1 and II, Plan terminal selection requirements, BALLOTS II system requirements documents 1975
Proposal for terminal, BALLOTS system book output samples, BALLOTS system book, 1975
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
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
BALLOTS system reference manual vol II; A Guide to the BALLOTS file, brochures, plan, A Guide to BALLOTS Network Services 1975-1976
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
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
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
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
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)
Computer notes, schedules, and task control sheets 1967-1971
Task control sheets; Stanford University Libraries (SUL): Proposal for an Integrated Library System, abridged documentation on manual system 1967-1970
Stanford University Libraries (SUL)
Studies on present acquisition system, present cataloging system, end-processing, and cataloging department 1967
Appendix C - System Study, Vol. 1-6; Library Automation Systems, presentation by Joe Cusick 1970, 1973
Reports and publications
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
Stanford University Response to Research Libraries Groups, Inc. Request for Proposals for an Automated Bibliographic Control System. October 1977
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
A Plan for Development of a Research Libraries Network Based upon the BALLOTS System. Research Libraries Group, Inc., and Stanford University July 1978. Draft.
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
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.
The Research Libraries Group, Inc. Progress Report. June 1979
RLG Terminal Manual Zentec 9003 and Zentec ZMS-90 Video Terminals. August 1979
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
On-Line Public Access to Library Bibliographic Data Bases: Developments, Issues and Priorities. Final Report to the Council on Library Resources. September 1980
Shurkin, Joel. " The Rise and Fall and Rise of RLG." American Libraries July/August 1982.
Proposal for the Development of an Integrated Local Library System Based on RLIN/ASPEN. Research Libraries Group, Inc. 30 November 1983
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.
RLIN System Reference Manual. First edition March 1984. The Research Libraries Group, Inc.
A Technical Overview of RLIN. 29 May 1984 Research Libraries Group, Inc.
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
Issues in Retrospective Conversion. Report of a study conducted for the Council on Library Resources by Jutta Reed-Scott. May 1984
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.
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
Stanford University Libraries. Library Automation Proposal. December 29, 1987
Loose materials from binder containing Stanford University Libraries Library Automation Proposal.
Addenda, 1985-088.3 Accession ARCH-1985-088.3
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