The historical background of slide collections is treated with bibliographic references. The major portion of the paper reports and analyzes some of the data derived from a 1968 questionnaire directed to institutions having slide collections. (Author)

Prepared for education students, teachers, and special librarians to supplement the resources of well-known education libraries in the New York Metropolitan Area, this directory has been compiled as a reference tool for those who find the usual sources do not have the needed specialized resources. Because the 39 private and tax-supported libraries…

Much future teaching and learning will be dependent on library materials in formats other than that of the book. The use of the generic name of metabooks" to encompass this broad range of materials may help to awaken a more positive attitude to the library and its expanding resources. (Author/JN)

Written specifically for school libraries, the principles given can be applied to any library system which houses books and other media together and has a single, unified list of holdings. Following some general rules for descriptive cataloging, the cataloging principles are given for such non-book materials as: (1) filmstrips, (2) slides, (3)…

This paper highlights significant advances in audiovisual cataloging theory and practice: development of "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules" (second edition); revision of the MARC Films Format; and project to provide cataloging-in-publication for microcomputer software. Evolution of rules and practices as an outgrowth of needs of the…

This bibliography cites materials dealing with non-western music which are in the Sacramento Library at California State University. The geographic areas covered are Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and all of Asia. Listed are reference works, encyclopedias, monographs, bibliographies, songbooks, filmstrips, audiotapes, and indexes to periodicals…

This paper outlines practical steps to be taken that will include nonprint materials in the mainstream procedures of technical services operations--selection, order records, cataloging, post-cataloging operations, policy and procedure formation, loan period, checkout techniques, inspecting returns. Integration of nonprint materials into the main…

Discusses means by which the standardization techniques established for the description of textual documents may be applied to graphic materials, and reviews some of the problems that must be addressed when planning for an international network of iconographic resource materials. (CLB)

Any attempt today to recatalog a collection must take advantage of every tool which can simplify the task. This article represents such a venture in the application of the Library of Congress Class A schedule to the classifying, as well as cataloging, of phonorecords. (Author/NH)

Rock music is one instance of an information format that our culture has acknowledged far more widely than our libraries. (Author)

Describes the facilities, collections and services of the Cincinnati Zoo Media Center Library. Plans for the future expansion of an extensive slide collection are discussed. (CLB)

In devising a satisfactory solution to the problem of organizing and cataloging nonbook materials, the Laboratory School< Library kept two goals in mind: (1) to keep the call numbers and catalog card-forms as simply as possible, and (2) to keep the number of catalog cards to a minimum. A full description of the original plan was published in…

An account of the present state of the art'' of the librarianship of non-book materials is presented. (24 references) (NH)

Unlike popular music of an earlier day, rock music stems from, and expresses, the pain and aspirations of a new youth culture. (Author)

Maps possess many unique attributes which standard library materials do not, and as a result they are not covered in standard library science courses such as reference, cataloging, collection development, and preservation. Some library schools have responded to this by offering a specialized course in map librarianship. However, few schools offer…