The on-line acquisition program (LOLITA) in use at the Oregon State University Library is described in terms of development costs, equipment requirements, and overall design philosophy. (Author)

The Acquisitions System has been using the IBM 360/40 computer since April 1968. The order routine is described and pertinent order records and printouts discussed. (Author/NH)

Computerization of acquisitions activity is a technological advance already underway. Like all advances in technology it requires advances in knowledge, and future advances will occur only after research has produced the necessary knowledge. Comprehensive system design made possible by computerization will provide acquisitions with the objective…

In 1972-73 the University of Guelph Library used machine readable files of its collections to take inventory. A book detection system was also installed which reduced losses to .5 percent for the year. (Author/AP)

Designed to fill the need for a continuing series to provide scholarly reviews of the reapidly changing field of librarianship, this book presents critical articles and surveys based on the published literature, research in progress, and developments in libraries of all types. The eleven subject areas covered are: (1) "The Machine and Cataloging"…

An account of the University of Alaska Library's first automation project. (JB)

At the University of New Mexico, a machine-readable work file was developed to aid the bibliographer in science collection building. (PF)

In a new era of austerity in academic libraries, more realistic concepts of collection building will have to be adopted and new patterns of service will have to be devised. (Author/PF)

The major purpose of this study was to assist the data collection firm which the American Library Association had hired to do the actual data collecting for its study of decision-making in the selection of science books for academic libraries. Part of the study was devoted to a literature search on the subject of book selection for academic…

Cutbacks in funding and personnel required the Mankato State College Library to gain more effective control over its serials collection. The task was to integrate the various data, some unrecorded, on standing orders and serials holdings and to produce for the library directors specialized lists of many types: all titles ordered from a specific…

A detailed description of the operating practices of a computerized book-ordering and processing center for the State University of New York (SUNY) and a plan for implementing such a center are presented. The center is designed to receive orders for purchasing books that are prepared by the member libraries, transmitted to the center over…

Academic and research libraries have tended to dominate change and codification in this area of library work, as much in 1876 as in 1976. (Author)

This discussion of the approach taken in developing and integrating the available local and national systems into one unified management system examines and illustrates how the home-grown acquisitions module, the shared cataloging of OCLC and local circulation/inventory control module under development all interface and complement each other.…

Recommends the grouping together of serials functions, describes the application of such serials management in a university library, and appraises the expected organizational impact of automation on a centralized serials department. (FM)