Microcomputers in the Caribbean

Abstract

Many libraries and documentation centres in the Third World have introduced microcomputers as a first step towards automation. A number of microcomputer projects at the Main Library, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, provide the background for a consideration of hardware selection criteria, installation and maintenance of microcomputer systems, hardware appropriateness, output requirements, software, the role of user groups, systems documentation and training.