id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-10749 Dehmlow, Mark Information Technology and Libraries at 50: The 1980s in Review 2018-09-26 4 .pdf application/pdf 1902 74 43 The 1980s volumes of ITAL traversed a plethora of topics ranging from measuring system THE 1980S IN REVIEW | DEHMLOW 9 https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i3.10749 performance (efficiency was important during a time when computing was relativ ely slow and expensive) to how to use library systems to provide data that can be used to make business decisions. The decade nicely traces the first two generations of library systems, starting with university-developed automation and database backed systems and the migration of many of those systems to vendors. cache/ital-10749.pdf txt/ital-10749.txt