#i'm looking at you @ sirsi dynix
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"SUPARS was designed by a librarian named Pauline Atherton (who goes by the name of Pauline Atherton Cochrane today). In 1960, aged 30 and early in her library career, she had been the cross-reference editor of that year’s revision of the World Book Encyclopedia, ensuring thorough and accurate cross-linking between different articles. By 1966, she was working at the Syracuse University libraries and in the library school, where in 1968 she demonstrated the first use of an online decimal classification file to aid in search (AUDACIOUS). That same year, she established the first computer-based teaching lab that integrated online search into regular classroom teaching at the library school (LEEP)."
#PLEASE can we resurrect the name AUDACIOUS#best system name ever#i'm looking at you @ sirsi dynix#and summon#and EDS#database history#library history#tumblarians#libraries#librarians#syracuse university
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