In response to a hypothesis that researchers who no longer use print journals may miss out on the serendipitous benefits of "poor indexing" provided by print tables of contents, librarians at the University of Florida surveyed their engineering faculty to determine faculty use of tables of contents in either print or online format. Results…

The kinds of material presently being collected on Canadian higher education, their accessibility, and main problem of bibliographic control were surveyed in 1981. Canadian higher education materials involved material on or about higher education (particularly Canadian higher education) that was (1) produced by institutions, organizations,…

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE SUBJECT OF JAPANESE BIBLIOGRAPHIES. IT WAS DESIGNED FOR THREE KINDS OF USERS--(1) THE STUDENT IN SOME DISCIPLINE OF THE HUMANITIES WHO WISHES TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON JAPAN AND MAKE USE OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE MATERIALS, (2) THE STUDENT OR LIBRARIAN WHO KNOWS NO JAPANESE BUT WISHES INFORMATION ABOUT JAPAN,…

This paper is part of a project to set up a vertical file of pamphlet material for the Library School of Western Reserve University. The questions explored by this project are: (1) Can a classification of knowledge be created that will bring together all areas of knowledge related to Library Science and yet carry a short, simple notation? and (2)…

Describes a comparative survey of Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory and the Guide to Microforms in Print which indicated that the information on microform availability given by Ulrich's is not accurate. The results of the comparison are summarized in a table. (JL)

LISTINGS ARE GIVEN IN ELEVEN CATEGORIES. THEY ARE--(1) GENERAL, (2) ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, (3) HIGH SCHOOLS, (4) SPECIAL SCHOOLS, (5) PLANNING AND DESIGN, (6) ECONOMIC ASPECTS, (7) SPECIAL FACILITIES, (8) FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT, (9) SERVICES, (10) FIRE PREVENTION, AND (11) BIBLIOGRAPHY. COPIES OF SHORTER ARTICLES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY MAY BE OBTAINED…

Selective listing of material available in microform in the field of Afro-American studies is organized into two categories: papers, records and collections; and special areas of interest. Information is also provided about preservation microfilming at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. (two…

Periodicals, indexes, and abstracts important to the interdisciplinary fields of gerontology and geriatrics which are currently available at the Wichita State University are discussed. The section on periodicals includes a discussion of why they are useful as an information source, along with a short description of the scope of 18 journals. The…

Lists a selection of Canadian reference materials with annotations for 1978, together with a list of new editions. (CWM)

Two educational indexes' overlap of coverage is studied in terms of editorial policy, growth, and size of coverage, cover-to-cover vs. selective indexing, and the subject orientation of the periodicals concerned in order to compare two approaches to the same discipline. (Author/AP)

After a summary of background knowledge useful in searching for information, the authors cover extensively the sources available to the researcher interested in locating educational data or conducting a search of bibliographic materials. They list reference books, dictionaries, almanacs, yearbooks, subject matter summaries; and sources for…

This selected bibliography of materials in the field of Asian Studies held by the Arkansas University library includes general and area specific atlases, bibliographies, catalogs and checklists, chronologies, current affairs publications, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias and guides, handbooks, periodicals and periodical indexes, yearbooks,…

The importance of microforms as library media, the status of the micropublishing industry as it relates to libraries, developments in micropublishing and micrographics with impact on future library services, microform selection, and major sources. (Author/LS)

Chapter I: "Introduction and Summary of Results," stresses the view that the problem of insufficient access is primarily a problem of the great size of the archives to which access is desired. Chapter II: "Levels of Information Storage and Access," is directed toward the problems of library archives and in this context it is…