Costs of Library Catalog Cards Produced by Computer

Production costs of 79,831 cards are analyzed. Cards were produced by four variants of the Columbia-Harvard-Yale procedure employing an IBM 870 Document Writer and an IBM 1401 computer. Costs per card ranged from 8.8 to 9.8 cents for completed cards.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frederick G. Kilgour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Library Association 1968-05-01
Series:Information Technology and Libraries
Online Access:https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/2929