Oral history interview with Lawrence Buckland [electronic resource], 1990.

Biographical Note

Computer programmer.

Scope and Contents

Intelligence data processing, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, 1954-1958; American Documentation Institute: updating of documentation methods, computerization; Itek, 1958-1962: development of data base for documentation, 1960, building of computer to simultaneously record data and produce card catalogs; establishment of Inforonics, Inc.: development of database to encode typographic characteristics in cataloging, early text processing, development of first system for simultaneous storage of encoded data while keyboarding manuscript, consultant, Library of Congress: first discussions of Machine-readable Catalogue System (MARC), adaptation of Inforonics' systems to librarians' cataloging needs, work with processing bibliographies, data-element set design, standardization of formats.

Subjects

• Buckland, Lawrence F.--Interviews.
• Catalog cards.
• Computer programmers--Interviews.
• Fall, James E. interviewer.
• Information storage and retrieval systems.
• Inforonics, Inc.
• Interviews.
• Library of Congress.
• MARC formats.
• Machine-readable bibliographic data.
• Oral histories.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991.