Darmstadt: A Library On Tap

A 1960/1970s documentary describing the automatic documentation service offered by the European space organisations. Utilising a powerful computer reference system, Europe's first information retrieval network is based in Darmstadt, Germany. This film provides a diagram of how the European network connects, footage of contemporary computers with operators [the ESRO computer centre], an explanation of how a search is conducted using keywords, people working with keyboards, women working with small components under microscopes, printing data, conducting a microfiche search, various equipment relating to the European reference communications network.

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