The major impetus for a system study of the ORNL Laboratory Records Department (LRD) was the ORNL-3300, a computer listing of all ORNL reports, papers, and oral presentations. Although this file has been maintained by the Information Division Libraries Department (LD) for several years, the usability of the file is somewhat limited, and duplicative steps appear to be involved in generation of the file. In order to examine procedures involved in generating the ORNL-3300, along with other Library Department and Laboratory Records Department procedures, various Information Division personnel were interviewed and the LRD Procedures Manual was reviewed. The existing LRD …
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The major impetus for a system study of the ORNL Laboratory Records Department (LRD) was the ORNL-3300, a computer listing of all ORNL reports, papers, and oral presentations. Although this file has been maintained by the Information Division Libraries Department (LD) for several years, the usability of the file is somewhat limited, and duplicative steps appear to be involved in generation of the file. In order to examine procedures involved in generating the ORNL-3300, along with other Library Department and Laboratory Records Department procedures, various Information Division personnel were interviewed and the LRD Procedures Manual was reviewed. The existing LRD and LD procedures surrounding the ORNL-3300 were examined closely with the intent of developing an LRD computer data base from which the ORNL-3300 would be a by-product and which would eliminate duplicative manual procedures whenever possible. Integrating the ORNL-3300 into a computer data base system would allow Boolean logic searches on the 3300 data not possible with the present system. No attempt was made to examine ORNL-3300 facsimile data bases maintained by various divisions, although several are known to exist. Although addressing the ORNL-3300 is the major thrust of this paper, development of computer data bases for foreign visitors and ORNL photographs was also examined. In examining LRD procedures, only major components of system flow surrounding the ORNL-3300 were considered, and no attempt was made to examine other system alterations or LRD procedures which might be eliminated or computerized. No attempt is made in this paper to explain in-depth details of LRD procedures, since these are documented in the LRD Procedures Manual.
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