Toward an Automated Reference Information System: Inmagic and the UCLA Ready-Reference Information Files.
Mark Edward Stover, Esther Grassian · John Spoor Broome Library Institutional Repository (California State University) · 1989
The reference information files at several UCLA libraries were merged and prepared for conversion to machine-readable form under a Council on Library Resources grant. The database structure was conceived using the following factors: data elements, field indexes, syndetic structure, and the possible future sharing of files with the Los Angeles Public Library. Information was entered into a microcomputer using Inmagic, a sophisticated text management systerm that includes among its features Boolean searching, extensive indexing capabilities, and variable length fields. Future implementation of Infofile will depend on funding, but may include translation into ORION, the UCLA online catalog.