Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups of nuns have filed a resolution calling on American Electric Power to issue a report to its stockholders on its Appalachian strip-mining activities. The report would include detailed information on finances and on the corporation's efforts to restore land it has mined...
Officials said yesterday that there are two reasons for the general reissue: the new Harvard College Library Record System needs a machine-detectable identification strip to computerize its circulation system; and, the food service validation stickers, which have been pasted on over each other on some cards, making it difficult to obtain a readable imprint on the present mechanical library circulation department...
...Widener circulation system is an optically-encoded system that uses a strip erroded with alternating dark and light bands corresponding to serial numbers to identify books and borrowers and store the information on a computer...
...call number of the book is then typed into the machine to associate the serial number with the call number. The light-pen is then passed over the encoded strip on the borrower's bursar's card to associate his serial number with the call number and serial number of the book...
However, the type of encoding strip being considered for the bursar's cards by Smith is a magnetic tape...