Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 662]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The Vice President for Administration has recommended that the contract be renewed as outlined above. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Renewal of Contract for Administrative Computing Services to Be Provided the Illinois Board of Higher Education

(20) The Consolidated Administrative Computer Center (CACC) has provided since 1974 teleprocessing services to the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) for the purpose of establishing and operating a management information system through the University's central computer facilities. Computer time-sharing has been accomplished primarily by means of terminals in the IBHE offices, with access to the IBM 370/168 system located at the Roosevelt Road Building, Chicago. T h e Board of Higher Education has requested that the current services be extended through June 30, 1977. The agreement will provide for time sharing for ten hours per day, Monday through Friday, with no specific operational guarantee. (The support to IBHE will be on a "best-effort" basis.) Charges to IBHE for services through June 30, 1977, are estimated to be $16,000, based on University-wide administrative data processing rate for system usage. University charges will be revised by agreement of both parties to reflect changes in University equipment. The agreement may be terminated by either party upon thirty days' written notice. IBHE will provide terminals, modems, data access arrangements, and switchwork network service at the terminal end, with the CACC communications staff assisting in specifying the characteristics of such equipment. ' The Vice President for Administration has recommended that the contract be renewed as outlined above. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Bibliographic and Library Processing Services (From the Ohio College Library Center)

(21) Among the most time-consuming but vital processes in library operations are the gaining of access to bibliographic data and the cataloging of new or replacement publications. Because of the volume of entries and the time required for cataloging new publications, the manual systems employed heretofore in most libraries are giving way to automation. Developed individually, such systems are extremely costly to implement and maintain. Therefore, some collective technique has been needed. T h e Ohio College Library Center, a nonprofit corporation organized in Ohio, has developed a computer-assisted bibliographic and library process data base. I t has been providing services, via electronic communications, successfully for several years. By use of this system requests for reference data or for catalog file cards for new publications are entered into a local terminal and passed to the center via dedicated telephone lines. Reference data will be returned by the same method. Catalog cards will be produced automatically at the center and sent by mail to the requesting institution. T h e University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign has collaborated with the State Librarian to test the Ohio system during the last two years. T h e Office of the State Librarian has funded the service costs and provided equipment for the initial test period.