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Download full textDaval, Nicola, Ed. – 1984
Program presentations on issues related to bibliographic control and access to collections and business meeting minutes are combined in this report. Under the program title, "The Sum of the Parts: Sharing Responsibility," the following addresses are included: (1) "The Building Blocks: Elements in a System of Distributed…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Library Administration, Library Associations, Library Catalogs
Lancaster, F. W., Ed. – 1987
The papers in this proceedings consider ways in which user friendly interface design may be used to make online systems in public and academic libraries easier to use, and thus more attractive to potential users. A short introduction by F. W. Lancaster is followed by nine papers: (1) "Linking the Unlinkable" (Michael Gorman); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1980
This report provides the verbatim minutes of the meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on the theme, The Future of Scholarly Communication. Comments by David W. Breneman and Warren J. Haas on the Report of the National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication were followed by general discussion, as was Richard W. Boss's The Library…
Descriptors: Communications, Cost Effectiveness, Humanities, Library Catalogs
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1975
The focus of the January 1975 meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) was the future of bibliographic records of library holdings. Speakers from the Library of Congress (LC) reported on historical problems associated with card catalogs and on plans for conversion to other forms. Speakers from large research libraries indicated a…
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Conference Reports, Library Automation
New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, NY. – 1979
The continuing education of library staff is the focus of this collection of papers and journal articles presented at or related to seminars sponsored by the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO). It includes "LEX: Law Advice for Public and Academic Librarians," by Alice Norton; the Library Journal/School Library…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Administration, Library Associations, Library Catalogs
Gregor, Dorothy, Ed. – 1984
The 29 participants in this meeting on retrospective conversion included research and public library administrators; representatives from the Library of Congress, the major bibliographic utilities, and the regional networks; librarians with experience in planning retrospective conversion projects; three authors of the "Issues in Retrospective…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Catalogs, Library Cooperation
Gregor, Dorothy, Ed. – 1984
This meeting on the retrospective conversion (RECON) of music materials brought together 21 individuals to plan the integration and coordination of RECON activities within the context of the music library community. Major music societies and professional music groups were represented as were music faculty and composing communities. This document…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Catalogs, Library Collections
Aveney, Brian, Ed. – 1984
Developed from presentations given at a 3-day invitational meeting of 31 leading online catalog designers from both public and private sectors in North America, these papers provide information about online catalogs--their present form, their use, and the questions that need to be considered in their future refinement. All of the papers in this…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Science, Guidelines
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1985
Minutes from the 1985 Membership Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) include the full-text of the presented paper, "Proposal for a North American Program for Coordinated Retrospective Conversion," by Jutta Reed-Scott, and the comments of a six-member panel, made up of members of the ARL Committee on Bibliographic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Conferences, Evaluation Methods
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1975
At the meeting of the Association of Research Libraries in Chicago, the principal program element focused on the future of card catalogs, a topic of special concern to large research libraries, whose catalogs are becoming cumbersome, expensive to maintain, and complicated by changes in cataloging rules. Papers by William Welsh and John Rather of…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Reports
Research Libraries Group, Inc., Stanford, CA. – 1984
This document comprises a program schedule; welcoming remarks by Herman Liebaers (Brussels), entitled "Towards a European Equivalent of the Council on Library Resources"; and conference papers presented at an international conference on cooperation among research libraries. The following papers presented at the conference are (with two…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Consortia, Foreign Countries
