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8805	Gerrity, Robert	Editor's Comments	2015-06-15	2	.pdf	application/pdf	438	34	59	Microsoft Word June_ital_gerrity.docx Editor's Comments Bob Gerrity INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2015 Library Discovery Circa 1974 Our ongoing project to digitize back issues of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) and its predecessor, Journal of Library Automation (JOLA), provides frequent reminders of what's changed (and what hasn't) in library technology in the past several decades. image above is from a 1974 advertisement in JOLA for the "ROM II Book Catalog on Microfilm" can use the catalog simultaneously in many different locations. Your patrons never touch the film—your complete library catalog "Locked-­‐in"! THESE ARE ALL THE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY. This month's issue of ITAL looks at the current state of library discovery from a number of tool for research, taking advantage of web-­‐based search technologies while retaining many of step guide to evaluating web-­‐scale discovery services for libraries. Unrelated to discovery but certainly relevant to issues around library 	./cache/8805.pdf	./txt/8805.txt