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5772	Shoffner, Ralph M.	ISAD Ad Hoc Committee Reports	1973-09-01	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7905	473	47	and application of electronic data processing techniques and the use of automated systems in all areas of library work." Before this date, there was no membership unit within ALA with the sole responsibility for library automation, so smaller libraries unable to afford competent staff members with assigned responsibility in this area; and provision of a forum for discussion of library automation problems and experiences, and other means of communicating information If the key word in acquisitions is "selectivity," the corresponding term in cataloging is "access." Some of the earliest automation efforts in libraries were directed to the production of machine-readable catalogs and associated programs in particular, as well as library automation management, information science education, micrographic and telecommunications technologies. The Committee therefore recommends that a program of seminars and institutes be continued and broadened by the division during the next five 	./cache/5772.pdf	./txt/5772.txt