Fermilab Library projects
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: 1. inter-laboratory workshop on preprint database management, Geneva (Switzerland), 14-16 May 1990
- Subject
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
LIBRARIES
AUTOMATION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
PLANNING
STANDARDS
ACCELERATORS
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
MANAGEMENT
SYNCHROTRONS 990300* -- Information Handling
990100 -- Management
- Language
- English
Preprint database management as done at various centers -- the subject of this workshop -- is hard to separate from the overall activities of the particular center. We therefore present the wider context at the Fermilab Library into which preprint database management fits. The day-to-day activities of the Library aside, the dominant activity at present is that of the ongoing Fermilab Library Automation. A less dominant but relatively time-consuming activity is that of doing more online searches in commercial databases on behalf of laboratory staff and visitors. A related activity is that of exploring the benefits of end-user searching of similar sources as opposed to library staff searching of the same. The Library Automation Project, which began about two years ago, is about to go fully online.'' The rationale behind this project is described in the documents developed during the December 1988--February 1989 planning phase.