1. Library Life Before Computers Typewriters, Ko-Rec-Type, Shorthand, Catalog Cards, Printed Indexes, Charge Slips, Rubber Stamps, Adding Machines In the 1970s the Library was a safe haven for technophobes

6. IBM 709 Mainframe Computer This model was in use at Yale in 1963, located in the Watson building on Sachem St, now part of SOM IBM’s last vacuum tube computer, produced from 1957 until 1960

7. CPU Module from IBM 709 – Dimensions: 8” x 10”

8. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mark/IBM709.html IBM 709 Central Processing Unit

9. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/ibm709.html Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu / Columbia University Computing History / Jan 2001fdc@columbia.eduColumbia University Computing History Typical IBM 709 Machine Room

10. IBM Card Punch of the type used for data entry with the Library’s Machine Aided Technical Processing System (MATPS), managed for many years by Suzanna Lengyel

11. GEAC Circulation System The system, with 930 MB of disk storage, was located in what is now the CCL electronic classroom The Canadian Geac 8000 system ran at Yale from May 1980 until July 1991

13. Disk Platter from Geac Circulation System, 1980 14” in diameter Approx 30 MB

15. Cartoon posted by an unknown colleague on the door of the GEAC machine room in the 1980s. The names “Fred, Audrey, Alan” refer to Fred Martz, Audrey Novak, and Alan Hagyard, who spent many hours working in that room.

16. Orbis Green screen IBM terminals yielded to Windows workstations and Web interfaces over time The NOTIS Library Management System went live in July of 1989

17. The Index Collection North Bays SML Nave 1956

19. 256 MB Memory Key (2005)360K Floppy Disks (1987-1988)

20. Record in RLIN Format Pasted into FrEdit ==================================

22. Yale University Library Web Site 1996 - 2006

23. Early Library Home Page without Graphics – Spring 1996 Version

24. Rejected Design for first Graphical Library Home Page – Summer 1996

25. First Graphical Library Home Page – Implemented Fall 1996

26. Orbis Options Page – Implemented Fall 1996

27. Administrative Library Home Page (Contemporary with Research Workstation)

28. CrossPlex Orbis on the Web – Implemented Fall 1999

29. Library Home Page – January 2006 (This design first introduced in 2002)

30. The Integrated Library Integrated Interfaces Learning Technologies Digital Preservation Strategic Planning 2001-2003

32. Federated Searching Library Front Door Portal Authenti cation University uPortal OrbisGoogle Discipline Specific Sites Personal Info Environm’t Directory Persistent Naming OAIS Archives Rescue Repo Interoperability Protocols Auxiliary Services Students, Faculty, Staff, Readers (Actors) Public Interfaces, Reader Environments (Access) Mediated Services, Tools, Applications (Data Management) Repositories, Databases, Collections (Storage) Metadata Preservation Integrated Yale University Library Digital Landscape Web Services RSSZ39.50 OAI OpenURL Rights Mgt MetaLib Learning / Course Mgt Classes, Sakai Metadata Harvesting OAI Reference Linking SFX Virtual Reference Ask! Live Delivery Services Borrow Direct Knowledge Mgt Tools GIS; Groupware Interfaces to University Systems and External World Creation & Metadata Tools Personal Insight; Crosswalks Ingest Collabora- tive Environm’t December 10, 2004 Scholarly Input LOCKSS

33. Morris StatCat Orbis VRC Images Beinecke DL Images AOB Images University uPortal Open Web Collections Art Gallery Peabody Museum Licensed Databases Library and University CollectionsUniversity ServicesExternal Resources External Portals DLF Aquifer Google BAC Catalogs OAIster E Journals Sakai Fedora Digital Repository MetaLib Federated Search MetaIndex OAI harvest XServer XML feed Finding Aids OAI-PMH Specialized Service OAI-PMH Discovery Service OAI-PMH Content Service Cross-Platform OAI Harvesting and Fedora Pilot Sakai Course Support Personal Info Environm’t OCLC WorldCat Aggregators Yale Portals OAI-PMH Harvester SFX (OpenURL) EGCDL and SSDA Yale Indian Papers Project McClintock (IMLS) Yale Daily News OACIS VITAL Interface & content mgmt O S V BA (future enhancement) Personal Faculty Colls

34. Back to the Books A Remarkable Discovery Treasures in the Stacks

37. Observations on the Revolution of America Number III The Freeman’s Chronicle Hartford, 1783

38. “Experience has not yet verified this prediction, 1789”

39. “Note” A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, by Noah Webster (a new spelling book)

40. Observations on the Revolution of America Number VI The Freeman’s Chronicle Hartford, 1783

41. “These remarks show my feelings & views in 1783. Very inaccurate indeed. -- N Webster”

42. August 2005