id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10699 Shaw, Ralph R. Photo-Clerical Experiment 1952-10-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1059 45 52 EXPERIMENTATION in the Department of Agriculture Library over the last three years in the use of a camera for the perform- ance of clerical routines, such as follow-up on book orders, overdues, or missing issues of periodicals, indicated that this new tech- nique offers possibilities for simplification of library routines, and for improvement of library services through reduction of the amount of time which must be spent on these routines. In order to determine the size of library in which the equipment is justified 303 a small college library has been included as has a State Library Agency, which we hope will be able to test some small public library operations. cache/crl-10699.pdf txt/crl-10699.txt