Ah yes, you're absolutely correct. Larger libraries, especially university libraries, have been online forever. I was thinking of the smaller public libraries, most of which have been getting computerized more recently.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > And the computer revolution has been > > going on in libraries for a decade now > > ? 3 decades more like. I'm pretty sure that the first computerisation of > lendings was brought into the library in my home town (Brighton in > England) about the time I stopped working there part time, when I was in > the 6th form (top 2 years of what Americans would call High School). I'd > have left in time to revise for exams before going to University. So it > would have been early 1975. The University library was all computerised > while I was there. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
