The various kinds of microforms, the criteria for evaluating microform equipment, the components required to create a whole microform system, and the potential created by a close interrelationship between microforms and computers are among the topics discussed. (NH)

Issues concerned with information science are considered in four broad categories in this survey: computers, communications, image recording and information content. (18 references) (SJ)

The authors envision the library of the future as part of a large network of dedicated computers, each with specialized data bases and inter-computer communications for accessing other data bases. (4 references) (Author)

A primer on information science introduces the study of how information is transmitted to the person who needs it and how it is later stored and retrieved. Beginning with the history of information as it was used by early man, the booklet summarizes the rapid development of new information technologies, with illustrations and in terms that can be…

The 131 references on small scale computer-based indexing cited in this bibliography are subdivided as follows: general, general (computer), index structure, microforms, specific systems, KWIC KWAC KWOC, and thesauri. (RAA)

Developments and trends in various technologies relevant to library usage are examined for new insights and perspectives into the future of library technology. (Author/AB)

The aim of this guide is to alert persons with an operational interest in scientific communication to new ideas, techniques, and equipment in the field of communication media and publications. The focus is on the dissemination of scientific information via the technical journal or its equivalent. Secondary dissemination of information such as…

This article reports on the advantages and disadvantages of computer output in microfiche or microfilm (COM). Libraries using COM, costs and equipment are discussed. (JG)

There are two major parts to this book. The first is a study of bibliographic control of microforms, and the second is an extensive annotated bibliography of microforms. The study included a survey of 190 libraries and showed that local bibliographic control of microforms is often so inadequate that usefulness of the microform collection is…

Areas of concern with respect to processing, storage, and output requirements of a generalized information processing system are considered. Special emphasis is placed on multiple-access systems. Problems of system management and control are discussed, including hierarchies of storage levels. Facsimile, digital, and mass random access storage…

The goal of this manual is to describe the basic elements of Computer Output Microfilm (COM) systems as an introduction to this new systems tool. COM systems, for this report, include the input device (magnetic tape unit or on-line interface), control logic, recording unit, and standard software. Several COM systems are described to illustrate…

This paper describes a technical document center providing remote-terminal retrospective search capability and shows its evolution from the traditional catalog card operation. (2 references) (Author)

Accessibility of computer technology to the nontechnical user has altered the scholar's world. Cooperative ventures will make the libraries of the future work for scholars by providing technological links between scholars and sources of information. Of particular interest to scholars are: microforms, videodiscs, and computerized databases. (MLW)