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Overview
The aim quite early on was to make Atlas a home for long-term users. As well as providing accommodation, the decision was that there should be a good library available covering the user disciplines.
On a visit to MIT in 1965 by Bob Churchhouse, the Information Retrieval system there so impressed him that the decision was taken to develop a similar system for Atlas but with the information content tailored to the Atlas users' needs.