十年前,地质图书馆仍象博物馆那样,收藏各种图书、期刊和图件。地质学者到图书馆去只是借阅专业书刊文献,把图书管理员看成是书籍而不是情报的管理者。尽管如此,已开始应用了地质数据的自动处理技术,而且图书管理员是内行人士之一。许多石油公司已建立起它们自己的数据库,一些主要的矿业公司和政府研科单位已利用计算机系统来处理野外数据。 Ten years ago, geologic libraries were still collecting books, periodicals and maps like museums. Geologists go to the library to just borrow professional literature, treating the librarian as a book rather than as a manager of intelligence. Nonetheless, automatic processing of geological data has started to apply, and librarians are among the experts. Many oil companies have set up their own databases, and some of the major mining companies and government agencies have used computer systems to process field data.