Showing papers on "Services computing published in 1972"

ATaT facilities and services

Abstract: This paper describes the U. S. telecommunications network with particular emphasis on aspects that are of importance to data- and computer-oriented services. The major portion of this network is owned and operated by the AT&T Company and the associated operating units of the Bell System as well as the independent branch of the industry. The services which the telephone network offers for data today depend in large part on transmission and switching systems which have evolved over the past decades primarily for voice transmission. An understanding of the history of the growth of the network and its facilities is useful background for the description of the current data services given later in this paper. After the current data services have been outlined, plans for AT&T's new Digital Data System, which utilizes a network of digital carriers for data transmission, will be described.

Information services in university libraries

Abstract: Although information services in university libraries were suggested as far back as 1939, it has only been since the mid‐sixties that the information function has been seriously developed by university libraries in this country. Such developments have largely been confined to the technological universities and a few of their ‘new’ and ‘redbrick’ counterparts, but the case for them has been convincingly argued and interest in the provision of information services has been general for some time, as was shown by the Report on Education and Training for Scientific and Technological Library and Information Work published by the Department of Education and Science in 1968. In this Report twenty‐six out of thirty‐seven university librarians indicated that, resources permitting, they would like to extend the services offered to science and technology departments, with special library standards in mind. The rise of the computer‐based services and the need to budget for their use may further accelerate the consideration of information provision in university circles and the coming Quinquennium seems likely to be of particular importance in the development of information services in universities. Some consideration of the implications and problems associated with them, especially for older universities, where staff are not used to such services, may therefore be useful at this time.

Community Information Utilities: Conference Summary.

Abstract: : The conference was organized into three sections: services, design and management The services group was charged with the responsibility of proposing what services should be offered on a prototype community information utility The design group was expected to determine how to develop the technology to provide those services at reasonable cost The management group was expected to propose organizational structures and financing arrangements appropriate for the kind of services and the kind of technical system proposed by the other two groups Portions of this document are not fully legible