Proposes the integration of microforms with government publications as a logical administrative home for these two collections because of similarities in format, type of reference service and bibliographic access, and subject content. Staffing, level of service, equipment, and location and arrangement of the area for optimal public service are…

This manual formulates guidelines and serves as a policy document for microforms service at the Microforms Desk of the Government Publications and Microforms Department of the University of California, Irvine. Introductory materials include a description of the nature of the service and statements of its objectives and policies for dealing with…

The "College and University Libraries" machine-readable data file (MRDF) is one component of the larger "Higher Education General Information Survey" (HEGIS). It contains data on the characteristics and activities of approximately 3,000 academic libraries associated with most of the institutions of higher education in the…