Thursday, Dec. 3, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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KU Alumnus Appointed
A KU alumnus is the key person in a Library of Congress project aimed at bringing automation to research libraries.
WHERE EXISTING EQUIPMENT is not suited, he will be responsible for the design of desired equipment, preparation of contract specifications and supervision of the engineering details.
Donald M. Rickerson, a native of Kansas City, Mo., and a 1949 electrical engineering graduate, has been appointed systems engineer in the Library of Congress office of the information systems specialist
Rickerson is the scientific and design leader of a preparatory project costing $700,000. The Library of Congress automation project is expected to become one of the biggest and most important in the information field with an estimated final cost of almost $70 million.
The three areas on which Rickerson will work are bibliographic processing, catalog searching, and document retrieval.
Rickerson will investigate the applicability of the complex electronic equipment now existing or being developed to those areas.
Rickerson has been an electronic engineer with the Department of Defense since graduation from KU. A pioneer in computer design, he participated in the construction of one of the first digital computers in the nation
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