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In the past Radcliffe compiled only one budget report annually and it was published ten months after the end of the fiscal year. Consequently department heads could not know whether their departments were running in the black, Britten explained. Beginning this fall, Radcliffe has kept a monthly tab on expenditures...
The computer is also programmed to arrange titles according to author and date of publication within each subject, and these classifications are included in each volume.
Widener Library is using a computer to update its shelflist and publish a set of bibliographies of its entire collection.
The new shelflist, which is a listing of the books by subject using their call numbers, is being compiled by seven technicians. They transfer data into the computer from the old handwritten shelflist, which dates from the early 1800's.
Future revision of the records will be facilitated by this new system, De Gennaro said, because the information is stored on magnetic tapes and the computer can be programmed to file new titles automatically.