National Libraries Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Study Papers,

Copies of the National Libraries ADP Feasibility Study Report and various annexes and supporting papers produced for the study, 1971; and provisional draft of the MARC International Format, prepared by the IFLA Joint Working Group on Content Designators, 1975.

The National Libraries ADP Feasibility Study, sponsored by the Department of Education and Science, was undertaken in the early 1970s to assess the feasibility of using automatic data processing in the operations of the United Kingdom's national libraries. The Project Head was Maurice B. Line.

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Donated by Dr Moelwyn I. Williams, Aberystwyth, 1983.

The National Libraries ADP Feasibility Study, sponsored by the Department of Education and Science, was undertaken in the early 1970s to assess the feasibility of using automatic data processing in the operations of the United Kingdom's national libraries. The Project Head was Maurice B. Line.

Title supplied from contents of fonds.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1983, at the National Library of Wales.

April 2003

Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used to compile this description: National Library of Wales, Minor Lists and Summaries 1983; Barr, Diana R., Trends in Book Production and Prices (National Central Library London, 1972).

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Action: All records donated to the National Library of Wales have been retained..

Accruals are not expected.

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