The system was implemented at Loughborough University in 1972, with the purpose of using an archive file containing details of every issue system transaction processed, to supply information on the use of the library. The original archive file structure was not satisfactory. The original and new systems are described. Five programs were envisaged in the original system; details are given of the program for analysing the usage of books recommended on reading lists. The new archive file required ease of access by accession‐number, borrower number then date, and was on tape. The functions of each of the seven new file conversion programs are outlined; the new archives are produced annually with a 50 per cent reduction in processing compared with the old system. (Aslib.)
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Management Information from an Automated Issue System: Design of an Archive File of Transactions
C.G. Senior;
C.G. Senior
Programmer, Friends Provident Life Office (This paper is based on work done for a final year project forming part of a degree course in Computer Studies at Loughborough University)
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M.E. Robinson
M.E. Robinson
Systems Manager, Loughborough University Library
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1975
Program (1975) 9 (3): 146–157.
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Senior C, Robinson M (1975), "Management Information from an Automated Issue System: Design of an Archive File of Transactions". Program, Vol. 9 No. 3 pp. 146–157, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046725
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