Job Responsibilities in the AT&T Library Network

As one of 7 programmers charged with producing and maintaining all the programs involved in running a large network of libraries, I was particularly concerned with designing user-front ends for both internal and end-user use. My specific job included the collection, creation, and distribution of current information to scientists and researchers.

• I wrote a forms-based front-end to the Library's proprietary database software. The program allows naive users to create databases and sophisticated data-entry screens for a database by simply filling in a form.
• I wrote and maintained a menu-based system used to produce weekly alerting newsletters and another one to produce monthly tables of contents-based alerting bulletins.
• I developed the Express system, which is a complete subscription and administration system for the electronic distribution of current information. It provided daily, weekly, or monthly electronic output from various sources depending on the subscriber's interest.

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