Discusses origin, scope, objectives, term relationships, updating, and future of "Thesaurus of Common Topics," an interdisciplinary thesaurus being developed by the Polish Centre for Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information as a main source of terms for branch thesauri development for the Polish national System of Scientific,…

The aim of the conference was to hold a working discussion on problems essential to the building of thesauri, a uniform comprehension of which would make it possible to build them in a manner ensuring easier communication and exchange of information between information systems covering different ranges of subject matter, and using different…

Reports on a study that analyzed 3,746 papers obtained from retrospective searches of the Medline database according to language, length of abstract, depth of indexing, and inclusion of author's address. The focus is on scientific production in Slavonic countries and the information value of Slavonic papers in Medline. (10 references) (MES)

Discusses the process of creating bibliographic and cataloging standards, after the implementation of the VTLS (Virginia Tech Library System) integrated library system, in major Polish academic libraries. Examines the adoption of the USMARC bibliographic data exchange format; authority control; subject cataloging; topical and name heading…