Reasons Possible why Libraries (or any Information Agency) attempt to Apply Technology:
Modernization:
To cope with increasing demands for services To reduce staff or prevent staff increases To allow more activities to be performed by clerical and paraprofessional staff
Patron services:
To provide new forms of old services (electronic access) To improve access to existing services (remote login, etc.)
Transformation:
To provide new (increasingly digital) information services Document Delivery Digital Libraries
Why Automate?
Extracted from Christine Borgman "From Locally Acting to Thinking Globally: A Brief History of Library Automation" Library Quarterly July 1997 pages 215-249.
Stage I : Efficiency of internal operations
Internal workflow Sharing cataloging data
Stage II : Access to Local Resources
IOLS marketplace OPACs Retrospective conversion of bib records
Stage III : Access to O...