Development of the Card-Automated Reproduction And Distribution System (CARDS) at the Library Of Congress
Stephen R. Salmon · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1969
Most of you probably think of the Library of Congress Card Division as a place from which you get a lot of cards or from which you do not get a lot of cards. In a way, these are the two reasons why the Library is now engaged in a full-scale effort to automate the card division: there are a lot of cards involved, and a lot of other things that is, to say, there is more than enough volume to make automation feasible and desirable and not enough cards have been getting to libraries quickly enough.