estado atual e perspectivas de informação da biblioteca de automação de Processos :: Brapci ::

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The Statewide STI system (GSNTI) is a network of interacting specialized organizations an bodies responsible for collecting, accumulating, processing, storing and disseminating information on science and engineering achievements in the USSR and abroad (Fig. 1).

GSNTI includes 12 All-Union , 86 central branch, 14 Republican, 113 interbranch regional bodies of STI, more than 8,000 divisions (bureaus) of STI in enterprises and organizations, as well as 11,400 scientific and scientific and technical libraries.

The number of GSNTI permanent employees is about 184,000. The All-Union STI bodies carry out centralized processing of the world information flow in accordance with types and subjects of documents assigned to them, build up systematized information files including those on electronic media for their subsequent use by all information bodies of GSNTI and direct reference-infor mation service rendered to enterprises and organizations.

Central branch STI bodies of the USSR ministries and departaments process and disseminate information on achievements of science, engineering and production according to the subject scope of the branch, wiely using information products of All-Union STI bodies and their own information resources for information service rendered to the branch directing bodies, enterprises, organizations and specialists.

Republican and interbranch regional STI bodies supply information to directings bodies, enterprises and organizations of the region in accordance with the level of the economic and technical development of the Republic or the region, widely using information products of All-Union and central branch STI bodies. Interbranch regional STI bodies function in six Republics: Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Kazakh, Uzbek and Azerbaijan.

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STI bodies in enterprises and organizations supply managers and specialists with the necessary scientific and technical infonnation received from the abovementioned STI bodies and also process for these STI bodies scientific, technical, production and economic infonnation reflecting the results of enterprises (organizations) activities.

The GSNTI infonnation-reference stock inc1udes domestic and foreign publications, research reports, theses, standards, descriptions of authors' certificates and patents, industrial-equipment catalogues and other documents - 2.3 milliard documents all in all.

At present about 40 per cent of documents created in the world annually are received and processed in GSNTI. Their quantity reaches 10 million items annually.

An essential trend of GSNTI activities is analysis, estimation and generalization of domestic and foreign infonnation materials describing currents state and development trends in the branches of science, engineering , production and making on this basis reviews and analytical materials which are used for making administrative decisions.

The ongoing process of automation in the Statewide STI System provides for simultaneours development and interaction of automated and traditional forms of the work done by STI bodies. It should be noted that automated technology is widely used by the country's infonnation bodies of all levels. 80 automated STI systems with the total volume of data bases amounting to more than 10 million records have been put into operation. Their number is steadily growing.

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Within the framework of its Statewide STI System the Soviet Union has established and operates a network of scientific and technical Iibraries which build up multi-subject and problem-oriented collections of sci-tech literature and other documents, and organize for this entire stock reference tools, depository storage of literature and documents, as well as Iibrary and infonnation service of specialists engaged in science and production.

The network of scientific and technical libraries is a multi-level structure (fig. 2) inc1uding All-Union, Republican and regional branch libraries, as well as those of research and design organizations and enterprises.

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library_information systems are a part of the national programrne M noical

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qualitatively new kind of library institution performing the functíOOS

national scientific and technicallibrary and the All-Union STI bodY'

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. GPNTB SSSR has a unique stock of domestic and foreign lJ l;ltlches

Wh1C:h.runs into 10 million items. Annually the Library and its 111'ies of

recel'Ver about 400,000 various publications, including 70,000 cgb tídes

books and serials, about 120,000 copies of foreign journals, 7,0 'fic and

from 47 countries and over 70,000 copies of translations of scieOU

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autolllation. The projects dealing with GPNTB automation are c~""ith a

by researchers and the information-computer centre equippeO

complex of computer and telecommunication facilities.

Tfie establishment and development of the GPNfB

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unified procedures of data collection and preparation aimed at combining online data input and batch processing;

unified principIes of organizing and maintaining reference information; use of unified software (lS1S) and hardware.

Today GPNTB operates a complex of automated library-information technologies.

Subscription to domestic and foreign joumals for the GPNTB collections and its branches (2,000 and 7,500 joumal titles respectively) is computerised; a computer monitors the time taken to fulfil 1LL orders

(about 150,000· annually) and orders for copying of literature (up to 400,000 anually).

Computers are also used to provide information-reference service and to coordinate intemational book exchange. To this end, the Library maintains the data bases devoted to:

_ cancelled and concluded agreemerits on intemational book exchange;

_ an index of foreign organizations issuing literature in a given subject field.

These data bases are used to prepare mock-ups of printed indexes and various references and lists, to design covering letters and distribution lists.

As the computer-based system developed at GPNTB automated work stations were established to serve the storage department using domestic . micro-computers.

The main online functions are as follows: - registration of inquiries;

putting of inquiries on a waiting list; location of a publication issued; - registration of the items on loan;

_ current control over the time-lag allowed to keep the items on loan; analysis of and control over the use of the collection.

The data bases necessitated by the automated technological process are also used in the service division to prevent sending orders for the items on loan to the storage section, and to promptly locate the item on loan.

Further development of the above operations is linked with the

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application of perspective domestic models of micro-computers which compare favourably with the currently used micro-computers both with regard to internal memory and peripheral devices and the software.

It has already been mentioned that GPNTB

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As an automated information centre of GSNT1 GPNTB is responsible for the establishment of data bases covemg foreign bóoks and periodicals, as well as domestic literature acquired by the scientific and technical libraries and ST1 bodies, and for the provision of access to thern through various channels.

Libraries and information bodies send to GPNTB data on the domestic and foreigh books and periodicals they have acquired, and GPNTB builds up and supports appropriate data bases which provide prompt access to the distributed collection of primary sources. Depending on the libraries'

technical facilities and'on the leveI of library automation GPNTB is getting information about new accessions on different kind of media such as working sheets, magnetic tape, as well as via telecommunication lines.

Data bases on foreign books and periodicals are built up within the frame

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The data base on foreigh periodicals contains information about foreign preiodicals in natural sciences, technology, agricultore and medicine to which the Soviet Union's organizations contained 25,000 records of publications, the annual addition is about 1,000 records.

The data base on foreign books contains information about foreign books in natural sciences, technology, agriculture and medicine received by

the country's libraries and ST1 bodies. Annually, about 70,000 records of new accessions are entered into the data base. Over 200,000 records have been entered into the retrospective data base.

The data base on published materiaIs about algorithms and computer programs is based on the Library's collection, containing data about algorithms and programs, and renders service to specialists of the national economy. The size of the data base arnounts to about 25,000 records.

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subsystems. The data base inc1udes records about serials pubIished in the countries participating in the subsystem: Bulgaria, Cuba, CzechosloVakia the GDR, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania and the USSR. '

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THFcpSSR ST A TEWIDE STI SYSTEM: CURRENT STA TE AND PROSPECTORS Under international cooperation agreements organizational and technical work has been done to provide teleaccess to the GPNTB data bases for foreigh libraries and information centres. GPNTB has also access to foreigh data bases via telecommunication network through the National centre of computerized exchange of information of the USSR - the All-Unio,n Research Institute of Applied Automated Systems (VNIIPAS).

ln 1987 experimental sessions were conducted with organizations of Yogoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Cuba and other countries through the GPNTB - VNIIP AS channel. At present the Library is beginning to apply commercial modes of using its data bases.

GPNTB is providing data bases on magnetc tape for interested local and foreign organizations. ln 1985 the size of the information provided on request amounted to 1.1 million records, in 1986 - over 1.4 million records, in 1987 - about 2 million records. The current number of subscribers is about 60.

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micro-computers. To organise information exchange it is planned to establish a local inter-library computer network.

The data bases distributed by the country's information bodies are used by many libraries both as "semi-finished products" in order to create online catalogues for their own collections (for instance, the data bases generated by the All-Union Book Chamber) and to render informatio

n service to readers, in particular, to reveal the content of various kinds of publications. To date, due to the possible application of telecommunication

modes of accessing information and exchanging data, GSNTl is in a position to automate not only certain technological processes in libraries but also the technology of their interface both with organizations-intermediaries in tackling acquisition tasks, and among themselves in operating the ILL system, in creating master catalogues

systems etc.

To ensure a more rational use of library resources and the saving of funds, GPNTB prepares methodological guidelines encouraging other libraries to make practical use of the projects which are implemented by GPNTB. Thus, GPNTB has already introduced in a number of libraries and STI bodies its own project solutions stipulating the operation of an automated subsystem dealing with subscription to domestic and foreign jouro.

1', control over fulfilment of ILL ,eque,t<, the technology 01 constructing sectoral and regional master catalogues, and some others. GPNTB prints and disseminates on subscription a wide range of

information publications, which are produced by means of computerized technology using data bases and electronic photocomposition:

annotated index "Algorithms and Programs"; All-Union general catalogue of foreigh books; AlI-Union general catalogue of foreigh periodicals; an index of new foreigh books;

an index of new foreign accessions;

a register of serials of the member-countries of the Intemational Centre for Scientific and Technical Informa.

The total volume of GPNTB information publications issued by means of automated technology amounts to about 2,500 author's sheets.

The short-term development of automted library-information systems provides, in part, for:

the establishm

ent by sci-tech libraries of new data bases as a result of the introductio_n of computerized technology for the processing of various kinds of literature on the basis of bibliographers'

automated work stations; the developm

ent of telecommunication modes both in rendering reference-information user and reader service at horne and abroad, and in transmitting orders for primary sources and/or their copies; the improvement of the organizationla and functional structure of the All-Union library-information systems by switching over to distributed processing of literature based on telecommunication network technology of information transfer;

provis

ion of publications on nontraditional media - diskettes, compact disks, and so on.

1 Prospectsof development

The major promising directions of the development of literature and information processing at GPNTB involve largescale application of mini-and micro-computers and necessitate the development of the telecommunication network to exchange data in the system of sci-tech libraries and STI bodies. The use of mini- and micro-computers poses the problem of optimal distribution of data bases at two interconnected levels: the leveI of an intergrated bibliographic data bank on mainframe ES computers and the level of specialized data bases on mini- and

GPNTB ís going to increase its effort in creating standard technolog

ies and software for information processing which can be used by other libraries, above all , by those of the -medium and lower levels.

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Orientation of these technologies at modern information computer and telecommunication facilities accessible to alI libraries opens up broad prospects computerising library-information work at alI levels of the sci-tech library network, and of providing to libraries access to alI GSNTI resources, as weIl as those of foreign networks and data banks.

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