A punch-card, optical coincidence information retrieval system has been designed for the information needs of a small library specializing in drug abuse literature. (Author)

Discusses the effectiveness of using author-supplied indexing to increase subject control in information retrieval, and describes a study which compared author indexing for articles published in "American Mathematical Society" journals to indexing of the same articles by an editor of "Mathematical Reviews." Nine references are…

The literature concerning laboratory notebooks is reviewed. A procedure is described for administering laboratory notebooks. Outlined is an indexing system which provides a method for retrieving information by laboratory notebook number, by name, and by general subjects. The indexing scheme is estimated to be adequate for collections up to 5,000…

Discusses an online bibliographic control program written using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and its use at the Denver Wildlife Research Center to organize and provide access to reprints of publications. The program listing, sample input and output, and programs for searching by one and two keywords are appended. (EJS)

A survey of five major bank libraries revealed three distinct levels of subject access to serial publications: manually based systems with no formal subject access; computer-aided systems in which the sorting capabilities of computerized serials management are utilized to generate printed lists arranged by subject; and online catalogs with subject…