Oral History of Library Information Access System [Ruth Tillman, Penn State Libraries]

Exciting news: an absolutely fantastic oral history project by Ruth Tillman at Penn State Libraries explores the rise of one of the early computerized catalog systems:

https://liashistory.com

It includes audio interviews with transcripts and a timeline, reflecting several years of research!

This is not only invaluable as a history of computing in libraries, but also an example of how to do oral history in libraries.

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