Library Life Before Computers In the 1970 s

Library Life Before Computers In the 1970 s the Library was a safe haven for technophobes Typewriters, Ko-Rec-Type, Shorthand, Catalog Cards, Printed Indexes, Charge Slips, Rubber Stamps, Adding Machines

IBM 709 Mainframe Computer IBM’s last vacuum tube computer, produced from 1957 until 1960 This model was in use at Yale in 1963, located in the Watson building on Sachem St, now part of SOM

CPU Module from IBM 709 – Dimensions: 8” x 10”

IBM 709 Central Processing Unit http: //www. cacr. caltech. edu/~mark/IBM 709. html

Typical IBM 709 Machine Room http: //www. columbia. edu/acis/history/ibm 709. html Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia. edu / Columbia University Computing History / Jan 2001

IBM Card Punch of the type used for data entry with the Library’s Machine Aided Technical Processing System (MATPS), managed for many years by Suzanna Lengyel

GEAC Circulation System The Canadian Geac 8000 system ran at Yale from May 1980 until July 1991 The system, with 930 MB of disk storage, was located in what is now the CCL electronic classroom

Disk Platter from Geac Circulation System, 1980 14” in diameter Approx 30 MB

Cartoon posted by an unknown colleague on the door of the GEAC machine room in the 1980 s. The names “Fred, Audrey, Alan” refer to Fred Martz, Audrey Novak, and Alan Hagyard, who spent many hours working in that room.

Orbis The NOTIS Library Management System went live in July of 1989 Green screen IBM terminals yielded to Windows workstations and Web interfaces over time

The Index Collection North Bays SML Nave 1956

256 MB Memory Key (2005) 360 K Floppy Disks (1987 -1988)

Record in RLIN Format Pasted into Fr. Edit =================

Yale University Library Web Site 1996 - 2006

Early Library Home Page without Graphics – Spring 1996 Version

Rejected Design for first Graphical Library Home Page – Summer 1996

First Graphical Library Home Page – Implemented Fall 1996

Orbis Options Page – Implemented Fall 1996

Administrative Library Home Page (Contemporary with Research Workstation)

Cross. Plex Orbis on the Web – Implemented Fall 1999

Library Home Page – January 2006 (This design first introduced in 2002)

The Integrated Library Strategic Planning 2001 -2003 Integrated Interfaces Learning Technologies Digital Preservation

Students, Faculty, Staff, Readers (Actors) Integrated Yale University Library Digital Landscape Public Interfaces, Reader Environments (Access) University u. Portal Orbis Discipline Specific Sites Google Personal Info Environm’t Collaborative Environm’t Authenti cation Mediated Services, Tools, Applications (Data Management) Federated Searching Learning / Course Mgt Metadata Harvesting Reference Linking Virtual Reference Delivery Services Knowledge Mgt Tools Meta. Lib Classes, Sakai OAI SFX Ask! Live Borrow Direct GIS; Groupware Creation & Metadata Tools Personal Insight; Crosswalks Directory Persistent Naming ho l Open. URL Rights Mgt Sc Web Services In p RSS ar ly Z 39. 50 ut OAI Repositories, Databases, Collections (Storage) Interoperability Protocols Preservation Metadata Ingest Rescue Repo OAIS Archives LOCKSS December 10, 2004 Interfaces to University Systems and External World Library Front Door Portal Auxiliary Services

DLF Aquifer Google OAIster Cross-Platform OAI Harvesting OCLC World. Cat External Portals University u. Portal OAI-PMH Specialized Service (future enhancement) OAI-PMH Content Service and Fedora Pilot Sakai SFX (Open. URL) XServer XML feed OAI-PMH Discovery Service OAI-PMH Harvester Meta. Lib Federated Search Yale Portals Meta. Index OAI harvest Aggregators Resources Orbis AOB Images O Mc. Clintock (IMLS) S Stat. Cat VRC Images A Finding Aids Morris OACIS Beinecke DL Images BAC Art Gallery Peabody Museum Sakai Course Support B Fedora Personal Faculty Digital Colls Repository EGCDL and SSDA Yale Indian Papers Project E Journals V VITAL Interface & content mgmt Personal Info Environm’t Open Web Collections Licensed Databases Yale Daily News Catalogs Library and University Collections University Services External

Back to the Books Treasures in the Stacks A Remarkable Discovery

The Freeman’s Chronicle Hartford, 1783 Observations on the Revolution of America Number III

“Experience has not yet verified this prediction, 1789”

“Note” A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, by Noah Webster (a new spelling book)

The Freeman’s Chronicle Hartford, 1783 Observations on the Revolution of America Number VI

“These remarks show my feelings & views in 1783. Very inaccurate indeed. -- N Webster”

August 2005