Guidelines for developing a complex library information system based upon the experience of the State Public Library for Science and Technology of the USSR

Abstract

The development of an automated library and bibliographic information and control system for the State Public Library for Science and Technology of the USSR has been started in 1966. From 1970 to 1974 the first level of the system (GPNTB AR-1) has been completed; this level provides solutions for 19 tasks in 5 subsystems. The second level (GPNTB AR-2) is now under development. This phase is characterized by the systems approach, the standardization of technological processes, the single input information used for multiple output information, and the possibility of connections to the national information system and international systems. The automated system is based on an information data base containing at least five years data. GPNTB AR-2 will be first tested with a sample processed from relatively small interdisciplinary document basis. The system is expected to be completed by 1985.