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alphabetizing announcement lists automated automatic output printing auxiliary data stores bibliographical control book-form catalogs cathode ray tube Chain Printer character set characters per second class schedules computer output printer computer printers core memory cost cumulated data packages developed discretionary hyphen electronic encodement factors Flexowriter format graphic arts quality high speed high-speed horizontal justification hot lead input keyboard Justowriter lead typesetting library community library mechanization library output printing library publications library's lines of type Linofilm Linotype look-up machine interpretable magnetic tape manipulation matrix mechanical printer mechanized library Monotype national libraries operated composing machines output printing device output printing products output printing systems paper tape operated PARTHENIN patron requests Photon printing run punched cards range retrospective search sequential card camera space special bibliographies subject heading lists tape converter tape operated composing type composition type density type face type fonts typesetting typewriter typographic quality utilized words
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Page 14 - There are several elements that are common to all photocomposing machines. These are: 1 . A matrix of characters in negative form 2. A light source 3. A lens or optical system 4. A magazine or other container for photographic film or paper 5. A method for identifying the character to be exposed 6.
Page 52 - The National Library of Medicine Index Mechanization Project. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 49: No.
Page 33 - ... the paper. A variety of new recording techniques are in use and in various stages of development which will remove the mechanical limitations on speed. These developments include electrostatic printing, magnetic printing, smoke printing, thermal recording, thermoplastic recording, and photographic recording. Many of these techniques can be applied to the making of replica copies of existing documents as well as to generating the initial copy of a document from an electronic or digital store.
Page 1 - Sixty years ago the rate of growth of library collections had outpaced the ability of the book- form catalog to cope with the input; the solution to this problem was the card catalog. Technology, however, is catching up with the growth of library work, and through such devices as high-speed, graphic arts quality automatic typesetting, the library profession may one day be able to consider the reinstatement of the book-form catalog as a feasible working tool. We should not, therefore, approach the...
Page 48 - ... complicated design problems the limitations are not usually in the lack of equipment, but in the knowledge of how to put a complicated array of techniques, equipment, and manpower to the most effective use.
Page 4 - ... from the point of view of the use to which they are to be put; and from the point of view of the processes internal to the library which are used to create them.