This catalog lists curriculum guides submitted by county and local agencies throughout California. The catalog has three sections: a subject index, an institutional index, and a summary section. Listings include title, catalog number, educational level, source, date of origin, length, and a brief description of contents. (EMH)

Some 16 videotape programs produced by the San Francisco based California Video Resource Project (CVRP) in 1975-76 are cataloged. Listings, which include the length of the program, its purchase price, and a brief content description, are presented in three categories: entertainment, information, and public libraries. The first category subsumes…

The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer looks at problems and makes recommendations for improvements at the Government Printing Office. At recent meetings, major concerns were bibliographic control and the need for a national depository system. (Author)

Abandonment of the universal author/title concept is recommended in favor of separate catalogs according to writing system, with headings appropriate for the system. The universal subject catalog should be retained; systematic rominization is not required for this catalog. (Author)

Recognizing the Mouseion's immediate need for reference works, Callimachus, in addition to compiling the great library catalog ( Pinakes''), also produced a large number of reference works in a myriad of subjects including anthropology, geography, history, ornithology, and literary history and criticism. (12 references) (Author)

The functions of the main entry in catalog structure are considered with reference to book catalogs. The idea that the main entry necessitates the unit entry and vice versa is questioned. (18 references) (Author/NH)

Possible reasons for the increase in the number of entries in the Monthly Catalog" of U.S. Government publications designated for Official Use" are explored. (Author/NH)

This article was prepared to provide the first stage in a search for material on higher education and includes references to more than 150 bibliographies. (MM)

Based on PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, 1967.

After decades of costly and time-consuming effort, nearly all libraries have completed the retrospective conversion of their card catalogs to electronic form. However, bibliographic systems still are really not much more than card catalogs on wheels. Enriched content that Amazon.com takes for granted--such as digitized tables of contents, cover…

The crisis in higher education is about more than money. It is about what one has been paying for, paying for dearly. The public, even in these hard times, supports higher education with its tax dollars. And families make huge sacrifices to send their sons and daughters to college. They deserve in return higher education that provides real…

This study examines how American Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries catalog full-volume, monographic, non-cartographic, preservation photocopies and explores the use of full, minimal, or dependent bibliographic records. It analyzes On-line Public Access Catalog (OPAC) records structure for multiple versions materials in terms…

The "see" and "see also" references in a library's catalog are supposed to provide the cross-references necessary to guide the user to the appropriate subject heading. However, libraries have difficulty maintaining the current, accurate subject authority files needed to facilitate this. A review of the literature in this…

In 1988, the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania received a grant to create a value-added, compact disk, union catalog from the U.S. Department of Education's College Library Technology and Cooperative Grants Program, Title II of the Higher Education Act. Designed to contain, in time, 2,000,830 records from 17 member library…

After considering the effects of AACR2 (American Anglo Catalog Rules 2) on the present catalog system, this task force on catalog usage recommends that the university library retain the present catalog beyond 1981 and later adopt an online catalog. Other options considered were, in order of priority, (1) close the catalog in 1981 and start an…