The Computer as Librarian.

Sometime in the next two years or so the Dartmouth College Libraries and the Kiewit Computation Center will be working together in an automated circulation system.

Assistant Librarian William B. Meredith, who has headed the planning for the new system, has been working with Professor of Mathematics John G. Kemeny and Dean Myron Tribus of the Thayer School of Engineering, in devising an automated system for checking books out and in, checking overdue books, and recording books to be reserved for individual students - all by means of the Kiewit Center's computer.

"The advantages of speed and efficiency with the automated circulation system will be a great improvement over the present manual one," Meredith has remarked, "but the changeover will not be sudden because it will take at least two years to switch the circulating books to new IBM catalog cards." The planners may experiment with Dana Biomedical Library first to check the capabilities of the new system.