The results of a study carried out under the auspices of the Council on Library Resources are described. (Author)

Outlines recent trends in library cooperation in England with emphasis on the British Library's programs. (PF)

A system used by five libraries in San Antionio, Tesas, for producing catalog cards, book catalogs, and bibliographies is described. (PF)

A framework for cooperation between Library of Congress and the RTSD/ISAD/RASD Committee on Representation in Machine-Readable Form of Bibliographic Information in regard to changes in the MARC System. (LS)

A brief visit to several Japanese medical libraries and information centers revealed similarities and dissimilarities with their United States counterparts. All the institutions had indexes, many English language journals, and photocopying requests. Differences appeared in the reference services provided. The information centers were computer…

This discussion paper seeks to highlight the need for standardization in the development of computer and telecommunications systems in Australian libraries to ensure an inbuilt capacity to interconnect with other systems. It presents a proposal for the establishment of an on-going mechanism responsible for identifying and developing standards…

Libraries frequently reject automation because of high costs and lack of expertise. A simple, economical, automated serials records system is presented, based on storage of data on IBM cards. The system was implemented at the Radford College Library to best meet numerous needs. Samples of files and reports are given along with maintenance…

Subroutines which provide efficient access to a directly organized file by blocking and deblocking variable length bibliographic records are described. (Author)

A computer-produced catalog, "Audiovisual Aids for Health Science Education: a Catalog of Materials at Case Western Reserve University," was developed at Cleveland Health Sciences Library to provide a rapid cataloging system for a newly established audiovisual department. (Author)

TRIAL (Technique for Retrieving Information from Abstracts of Literature) is an information storage and retrieval system which can be used by school media specialists to produce indexes of non-print materials. This manual provides a step by step approach for media specialists to automate their non-print holdings. These procedures can also be…

The May 1971 issue of "College and Research Libraries" featured an article by Dr. Ellsworth Mason which constitutes an all-out attack on the application of computer technology to library systems. Dr. Mason views the computer-based technology to library systems developed to date (at least the ones he has studied) as unqualified disasters from a…

A seminar on practical MARC cataloging was held at Southampton University library in April 1972. MARC is an acronym for Machine Readable Cataloging, a system devised by the Library of Congress and developed with them by the British National Bibliography. MARC enables the catalog data for any given work to be read and manipulated by the computer,…

One of a series of communications formats for machine-readable cataloging records issued by the Library of Congress is described. It is an implementation of the "American National Standard for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape," Z39.2-1971, which was adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The…

Organizations which provide information on library automation are listed with a brief annotation of the type of information or service available from each organization. This is followed by a short bibliography of selected publications on library automation. (NH)

The two principal goals of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), as approved during the first annual meeting held October 25, 1967, are: (1) increase the resources for education and research to faculty and students of its member insititutions and (2) the deceleration of per-student costs in its member colleges and universities. Plans to achieve…