Library Life Before Computers

Typewriters, Ko-Rec-Type, Shorthand,

Catalog Cards, Printed Indexes,

Charge Slips, Rubber Stamps,

Adding Machines

In the 1970s the Library was a

safe haven for technophobes

IBM 709 Mainframe Computer

This model was in use at Yale in 1963,

located in the Watson building on

Sachem St, now part of SOM

IBM’s last vacuum tube computer,

produced from 1957 until 1960

CPU Module from IBM 709 – Dimensions: 8” x 10”

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mark/IBM709.html

IBM 709 Central Processing Unit

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/ibm709.html Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu / Columbia University Computing History / Jan 2001

Typical IBM 709 Machine Room

IBM Card Punch of the type used for data entry with the Library’s Machine Aided Technical Processing System (MATPS),

managed for many years by Suzanna Lengyel

GEAC Circulation System

The system, with 930 MB of disk

storage, was located in what is now the

CCL electronic classroom

The Canadian Geac 8000 system ran at

Yale from May 1980 until July 1991

Disk Platter from Geac Circulation System, 1980

14” in diameter

Approx 30 MB

Cartoon posted by an unknown colleague on the door of the GEAC machine room in the 1980s.

The names “Fred, Audrey, Alan” refer to Fred Martz, Audrey Novak, and Alan Hagyard, who spent many hours working in that room.

Orbis

Green screen IBM terminals yielded to

Windows workstations and

Web interfaces over time

The NOTIS Library Management System

went live in July of 1989

The Index Collection

North Bays

SML Nave

1956

256 MB Memory Key (2005) 360K Floppy Disks (1987-1988)

Record in RLIN Format Pasted into FrEdit ==================================

Yale University Library Web Site

1996 - 2006

Early Library Home Page without Graphics – Spring 1996 Version

Rejected Design for first Graphical Library Home Page – Summer 1996

First Graphical Library Home Page – Implemented Fall 1996

Orbis Options Page – Implemented Fall 1996

Administrative Library Home Page (Contemporary with Research Workstation)

CrossPlex Orbis on the Web – Implemented Fall 1999

Library Home Page – January 2006 (This design first introduced in 2002)

The Integrated Library

Integrated Interfaces

Learning Technologies

Digital Preservation

Strategic Planning

2001-2003

FederatedSearching

LibraryFront Door

PortalAuthentication

UniversityuPortal

Orbis GoogleDisciplineSpecific

Sites

PersonalInfo

Environm’t

Directory

PersistentNaming

OAISArchives

RescueRepo

Interoperability Protocols

AuxiliaryServices

Students, Faculty,Staff, Readers (Actors)

Public Interfaces, Reader Environments (Access)

Mediated Services, Tools, Applications (Data Management)

Repositories, Databases, Collections (Storage)

Metadata

Preservation

Integrated Yale University LibraryDigital Landscape

Web Services

RSSZ39.50

OAI

OpenURLRights

Mgt

MetaLib

Learning /Course Mgt

Classes,Sakai

MetadataHarvesting

OAI

ReferenceLinking

SFX

VirtualReference

Ask!Live

DeliveryServices

BorrowDirect

KnowledgeMgt Tools

GIS;Groupware

Interfaces to University S

ystems and E

xternal World

Creation &Metadata

ToolsPersonalInsight;

Crosswalks

Ingest

Collabora-tive

Environm’t

December 10, 2004

Schol

arly

Inpu

t

LOCKSS

Morris

StatCat

Orbis

VRCImages

BeineckeDL Images

AOBImages

UniversityuPortal

Open WebCollections

ArtGallery

PeabodyMuseum

LicensedDatabases

Library and University Collections University Services External

Resources

External Portals

DLFAquifer

Google

BAC

Catalogs

OAIster

E Journals

Sakai

Fedora Digital

Repository

MetaLibFederated

Search

MetaIndexOAI harvest

XServerXML feed

FindingAids

OAI-PMHSpecialized

Service OAI-PMHDiscovery

ServiceOAI-PMHContentService

Cross-Platform OAI Harvesting

and Fedora Pilot

SakaiCourseSupport

PersonalInfo

Environm’t

OCLCWorldCat

Aggregators

Yale Portals

OAI-PMHHarvester

SFX(OpenURL)

EGCDL and SSDA

Yale IndianPapersProject

McClintock(IMLS)

Yale DailyNews

OACIS

VITALInterface

& contentmgmt

O

S

VBA

(future enhancement)

PersonalFacultyColls

Back to the Books

A Remarkable Discovery

Treasures in the Stacks

Observations on the Revolution of America

Number III

The Freeman’s Chronicle

Hartford, 1783

“Experience has not yet verified this prediction, 1789”

“Note” A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, by Noah Webster (a new spelling book)

Observations on the Revolution of America

Number VI

The Freeman’s Chronicle

Hartford, 1783

“These remarks show my feelings & views in 1783. Very inaccurate indeed. -- N Webster”

August 2005