But developmental work would be required for equipment-not yet in existence-and the conversion of bibliographic information to machine-readable format.

Sponsored by a $100,000 grant from the Council on Library Resources Inc., the 88-page report titled “Automation and the Library of Congress” concluded that automation in bibliographic processing, catalog searching and document retrieval was technically and economically feasible. 'A week later, the Library announced the results of a multiyear study on the feasibility of automating its bibliographic functions. 88-248), the IBM 1401 was intended for use in payroll, budget control, card distribution billing, accounting for book and periodical purchases and to produce various statistical and management reports. 'Provided for in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act of 1964 (P.L. 15, 1964, the first components of a small-scale computer system were delivered to the Library of Congress and installed in the Library’s newly established Data Processing Office. The result of five years of research, this 88-page report completed in 1963 endorsed automation and provided a clear roadmap as to how the process of automating the Library of Congress should proceed, and what it was estimated to cost. In 1964 the Libary of Congress published Automation and the Library of Congress, a report sponsored by The Council on Library Resources, submitted by a committee chaired by Gilbert W.

History of automation