Use of an IBM 1401 computer and a single keypunch operation for changing a college book collection from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress classification; for acquisitions, accounting and circulation procedures; and for production of a list of periodical holdings. A mark-sense reproducer is used for the circulation system. (Editor)

Discusses a centralized data base of MARC II records which is operated by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and is available to any library in the state. The history, creation, operation, uses, advantages, disadvantages, cost and future plans of the data base are included, as well as flowcharts (both system and detail) and sample outputs.…

A concept of a catalog that is hospitable to mechanized descriptive cataloging is presented, together with four areas of research programs that will yield findings useful in the development of such a catalog. (Author/JB)

The focus of the Library Education Experimental Project (LEEP) at Syracuse University has been the development of a computer based laboratory for library science students to use in class assignments and for independent projects, with MARC tapes forming the data base. Data bases, programs, and seven different class assignments are described and…