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Berinstein, Paula – Searcher, 1998
Offers practical tips on how to develop and manage a visual library collection. Highlights include: acquisitions; selection criteria and decision making; documentation; licensing and rights; access, standard vocabularies, and issues in applying terms; skills needed to index pictures; storing images; connecting images with documentation; access…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Guidelines, Indexing, Information Storage
Peer reviewedMiletic-Vejzovic, Laila – Special Libraries, 1994
Provides an overview of the state of libraries and their resources in Croatia. Highlights include destruction of libraries resulting from the war; the need for centralization, uniformity, and standards; the role of the National and University Library; processing library materials; and the development of an automated system and network. (Contains…
Descriptors: Centralization, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWelch, Jeanie M.; Cauble, Lynn A.; Little, Lara B. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1997
Discusses implementation of the automated recording of reshelving statistics for print reference materials and the use of these statistics in reference-collection development and management, especially in making acquisitions and weeding decisions, based on experiences at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Automation, Library Collection Development
Husbands, Charles W., Ed.; Tighe, Ruth L., Ed. – 1975
This volume of Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science is limited to the text of papers accepted and scheduled for presentation at the 1975 meeting. The papers reflect the need to address and define issues in national information policy, and they examine the current state of federal-level planning and funding of information…
Descriptors: Automation, Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Download full textHaynes, Kathleen J. M. – 1993
The purpose of this manual is to explain some of the basics of cataloging and classification for many types of library materials in small libraries. The ideas presented were gathered from practical applications in small libraries and from examples in standard cataloging and classification tools. The manual is designed for self instruction. There…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Classification
Buchman, James H.; Alter, Linda L., Ed. – 1988
This guide addresses the positive and negative issues associated with adapting telefacsimile technology to meet library service needs, and provides basic information about the technology while demonstrating how librarians have begun to incorporate it into their work processes. Individual sections cover: (1) the history of facsimile technologies in…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Equipment Standards, Facsimile Transmission, Information Dissemination
Blamberg, Donald L., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Planned and organized by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), the conference was designed to bring together people involved in scanning projects and to evaluate the feasibility of using hand-held scanning devices for transcribing bibliographic information during the cataloging and indexing processes. Ten previously unpublished papers and a…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Digital Computers, Information Systems, Library Automation
Oliva, Victor T.; Reiner, Michael K. – 1989
This guide outlines the procedures for using INNOVACQ at the Adelphi University Swirlbul Library to process and check in government documents and to create and change records. All INNOVACQ procedures are described in detail, and step-by-step instructions are provided for selected routines. A list of Long Island government depository libraries and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, College Libraries, Depository Libraries
Walton, Robert A. – 1985
The availability of appropriate software for library applications is a continuing problem, and this directory is designed to reduce the frustration of librarians in their search for library software for a microcomputer by providing profiles of software packages designed specifically for libraries. Each profile describes the purpose of the program,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Computer Software, Databases
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
A 1978 information survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members indicated that at that time, only a few large libraries were planning to freeze their card catalogs and set up alternative catalog forms as a response to decisions made by the Library of Congress to freeze its card catalog, supply access to its collection through an…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Higher Education, Library Automation
Van Pulis, Noelle – 1981
This paper describes the development of an online public access catalog from a limited-purpose online circulation system at Ohio State University (OSU) and the negative and positive aspects of this transition. It is noted that the online system, known as the Library Control System (LCS), was designed to be fully operational in July 1982. Steps in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
Libbey, Maurice C., Ed. – Illinois Libraries, 1985
The 20 articles in this issue of Illinois Libraries were written by practicing technical services librarians, library educators, and former librarians now involved in commercial enterprise. The articles are: (1) "The Development of Library Education in Illinois" (Anne V. J. Wendler); (2) "Financial Management in Acquisitions: Things…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Higher Education, Information Scientists, Librarians
SEGARRA, CARLOS O. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO IDENTIFY AND DEFINE THE PARAMETERS OF AN ECONOMICAL AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES. THE PROGRAM INCLUDED FOUR PHASES--(1) DATA REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION, (2) COST ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM DEFINITION, (3) HARDWARE SELECTION, SYSTEM TEST AND EVALUATION, AND…
Descriptors: Automation, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Data Processing
BUTLER, ROBERT W.; SCHOFIELD, PAULA Z. – 1967
THE CATALOGING SYSTEM, DEVELOPED FOR A COLLECTION OF 45,000 REPORTS, IS BASED UPON SIMULTANEOUS PRODUCTION OF MACHINE-READABLE INPUT AND THREE BY FIVE CARDS TO BE USED IN A MANUAL FILE. A FLEXOWRITER WITH AN AUXILIARY PUNCH AND READER IS USED TO PRODUCE THE THREE TO SIXTY CARDS PER DOCUMENT WHICH DESCRIBE IT. PAPER TAPES OF THE UNIT RECORDS, ADDED…
Descriptors: Automation, Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Computer Storage Devices
Shoffner, Ralph M. – 1967
This is a summary report on the symposium on "Joint Design and Development of Library Systems". The major result of the symposium was a plan whereby in return for the funding necessary to support meetings of an informal communications among a small project team of individuals working in different library systems currently in the process of…
Descriptors: Automation, College Libraries, Computer Programs, Conferences
