Describes the planning of the CONSER (CONversion of SERials) project with regard to the bibliographic conventions to be used. (PF)

An analysis of relevant concepts suggests that corporate authorship is basically a form of personal authorship and that the use of corporate name in lieu of personal name(s) is a problem of choice of name rather than one of determining type of authorship. (Author)

The evolution of modern practices in bibliographic description is traced to provide a frame of reference for consideration of the new ISBD(M) International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographic Publications. The origin and objectives of the standard are discussed, and the American experience in its application is reviewed. (Author)

Efforts toward the international realignment of German cataloging rules in accordance with the provisions of the "Paris Principles" of 1961 are reviewed. (Author)

Describes the work in progress toward an international machine-readable cataloging system and discusses the problems remaining. (Author)

The Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR's aims for the second edition are discussed. Included is a description of the physical structure of the revised volume. Bibliographic citations, access points, and general cataloging matters are discussed in relation to changes in and organization of the edition. (MBR)

Strong interest in serials has continued through the past year as evidenced by both the professional and lay press. Continuence of the more familiar items of serial literature has been scrutinized, making necessary, in several instances, changes in format. (Author/NH)

A mechanized current awareness service based on an in-house created bibliographic data base which is provided to Congress and to researchers at the Library of Congress is described. (Author)

Presents model depicting how library acquisition decisions are made based upon typology of contexts according to which citations are understood. Three contexts are defined: "syntagmatic context" within citation itself, "contexts of supplementation" provided by selection source, "contexts of resolution" derived from selector's experience of…

Briefly reviews problems in the cataloging of conference proceedings and their treatment by major cataloging codes, and discusses results of examination of citations to 50 conference papers in field of chemistry delivered in 1970 to ascertain implications of current citation practices for the cataloging of conference proceedings. (17 references)…

Reprint publishing has progressed to a position as a large-scale, self-justified industry. Reprints are amenable to convention bibliographic control, and librarians and publishers must cooperate in improving it. (Author/NH)

Discusses cataloging audiovisual materials and the concept of chief source of information and describes a study that compared citations from fully cataloged audiovisual records with their corresponding citations from bibliographic sourcebooks, based on records in AVLINE (National Library of Medicine's Audiovisual On-Line Catalog). Examples of…

Presents findings of investigations of Library of Congress subject analysis of minority groups conducted at St. John's and Florida State Universities to determine if the analysis is prejudiced, offensive to the affected group, accessed via terms the intended audience would use, and if the vocabulary is objective. (FM)

Describes a citation analysis of journal articles dealing with online catalogs to determine patterns in subject content, date, publication format, authorship affiliation, type of authorship, and how the cited publication was used in the article. It is concluded that this literature has many characteristics of a scholarly literature and indicates…

A comparison of the Bradfordian ranking of journals by their production of papers in a subset of psychological literature with the same journals ranked by quality of papers judged by their frequency of citation shows no significant correlation. Quality is more closely related to journal circulation and rejection rates. (Author/MBR)