Library of Congress call numbers which contain mixed alphameric notations are not readily adaptable for computer sorting. Some editing is required if the sorted call numbers are to correspond to the library shelf arrangement. A PL/1 subroutine that performs such editing is in use at Eastern Illinois University. The computer programs are appended.…

UNESCO, in cooperation with several other organizations, has produced a manual, the scope and purpose of which has been to define, for most types of scientific and technical literature, a set of data elements which will constitute an adequate bibliographic citation, and to define the representation of these data elements as they should appear in a…

Current trends are surveyed in the cataloging of nonbook materials and recommendations are made regarding local original cataloging while standard forms are being developed, with further suggestions about storage of these materials. It is recommended that the local cataloging format for nonbook materials be based on the Draft Revision of Chapter…

The major purpose of this study was to assist the data collection firm which the American Library Association had hired to do the actual data collecting for its study of decision-making in the selection of science books for academic libraries. Part of the study was devoted to a literature search on the subject of book selection for academic…

The Conference Poceedings are divided into three broad topics: systems planning, audiovisuals in biomedical communication, and automation and networking. Speakers from within the Veterans Administration (VA), from the National Medical Audiovisual Center, and the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of…

An annotated list of technical reports, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers produced by members of the staff of the American Institutes for Research in the past ten years is provided. The earliest research addressed fundamental issues in programed instruction. Later, it came to address issues common to both programed instruction…

The Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) is a computerized regional library Center serving the academic libraries of Ohio, both state and private, in order to increase and make more efficient use of bibliographical resources. The program has five major components: (1) shared cataloging, (2) bibliographic information retrieval, (3) circulation…

The objectives of the seminar were to report on: (1) the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) project work; (2) the UDC work, trends and opinions in Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries and (3) the production and development of UDC schedules and indexes, and Perreault's work on "relators." Twelve of…

Organization of communication between the center of an automated system of information exchange and the subscribers to the system is described. The three requirements are: (1) those technical communication means must be chosen which will provide effective and convenient avenues for calls from the subscribers to the center, (2) the required…

The feasibility of completely automating the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was tested, and item response latencies were compared with other MMPI item characteristics. A total of 26 scales were successfully scored automatically for 165 subjects. The program also typed a Mayo Clinic interpretive report on a computer terminal,…

The report serves as a guide and manual to the Central Lane Planning Council's (CLPC) planning library and describes representative planning library material retrieval systems which are adaptable for use by public and private planning agencies. CLPC library policy and administrative procedure are outlined in the report. Material storage and…

The chemical coding scheme of the Medical Coding Scheme (MCS), developed for use in the Comparative Systems Laboratory (CSL), is outlined and evaluated in this report. The chemical coding scheme provides a classification scheme and encoding method for drugs and chemical terms. Using the scheme complicated chemical structures may be expressed…

The purpose of the survey was to collect data relating to (1) present usage of chemical information and data in the Federal community; (2) techniques and equipment now used in the acquisition, processing, and transmission of information and data; and (3) direction of plans for future chemical information services at ongoing systems. The scope of…

Subjects covered in this bibliography include manual, mechanized and automated techniques, evaluation of systems, standards, storage and retrieval systems, research, vocabularies, author participation, permuted title indexing, citation indexing, and specialized indexing requirements, i.e. chemistry, medicine, patents, engineering drawing, and…

Syllabi, course outlines, bibliographies, etc., are widely used by college and university teaching faculty as guides for students and to inform reserve collection librarians of required materials. The need to update such bibliographies varies with the subject involved. Under the premise that library school faculties need to repetitively update and…