A selected collection of architectural programming techniques has been assembled to aid architects in building design. Several exciting and sophisticated techniques for determining a basis for environmental design have been developed in recent years. These extend to the logic of environmental design and lead to more appropriate and useful…

Today, with development of computerized data banks, there is an increased quantity of stored information that has relevance to problems far beyond the scope of the original study for which the data were developed. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the major data available and their sources. It is hoped that by describing some of…

The symposium on automated information systems and copyright law held at American University in April 1967 is entered into the Record by Hon. Robert W. Kastenmeier so as to be readily available to members and others interested in this subject matter. The papers are: (1) Copyright Law Revision; (2) Post-Gutenberg Copyright Concepts; (3) Copyright…

Chapter I: "Introduction and Summary of Results," stresses the view that the problem of insufficient access is primarily a problem of the great size of the archives to which access is desired. Chapter II: "Levels of Information Storage and Access," is directed toward the problems of library archives and in this context it is…

A general model for information storage and retrieval (IS&R) systems is proposed. The system is selected from the set of all available IS&R components. These components define the system's users and data sources; the hardware, software, and personnel performing the actual storage and retrieval activities; and the funder who acts as a filter in the…

The Information Processing Unit of the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center acquires, abstracts, indexes, stores, retrieves, and disseminates a comprehensive bank of information regarding the education of exceptional children. These functions are served by three sections: Acquisitions, Indexing and Abstracting, and Information…

Although designed to process personal reference collections maintained by researchers, Famulus is suitable for a large number of other applications. For this purpose it can be regarded as a general-purpose system. This manual presents it as such a system. The eight main Famulus programs described are: "Edit"--writes punched card input onto tape.…

Libraries are different things to different people as well as different things to the same people. In the university environment, the library has an important function as an articulating symbol, as the tangible reference point of the value system of the "examined life." Nothing else so well symbolizes the broad cultural aims of education…

Emphasis is placed on the establishment of a cost effective program of records management with scientific controls of records required in the course of operating a business. The control of cost and information must be given consideration along with the problem of effective information dissemination. For success, the program's objectives must be…

This book has been written for all types of libraries and media centres which wish to have an omnimedia catalog, i.e., one in which the entries for all materials, both book and nonbook, are interfiled. In order to integrate all entries successfully the same cataloging principles should apply to all media. A practical solution is to enter and…

The 116 citations on book catalogs are divided into the following two main sections: (1) Selected References, in alphabetic sequence by personal or institutional author and (2) Anonymous Entries, in alphabetic sequence by title. One hundred and seven of the citations cover the years 1960 through March 1969. There are five scattered citations in…

Contained in this document are four selected articles from the Russian language periodical "Ekonomika i Organizatsiya Promyshlennogo Proizvodstva." The selections are: "The New Science of Information" by S.L. Sobolev, "On Ways to Develop Organizational Structures in Information Science" by V.D. Grober,…

Discusses the degree to which historians have been involved in the data archiving movement and the challenges it presents to their discipline. Concludes that American historians are less involved with machine-readable data in their research than are social scientists in general and that they should attempt to utilize more such data in an attempt…

Discusses computerization of student recordkeeping and the computers and software programs available for different school needs. (MD)

Describes the latest technology in videotape cassette systems and other magnetic storage devices and their possible effects on optical data disks. Highlights include Honeywell's Very Large Data Store (VLDS); Exabyte's tape cartridge storage system; standards for tape drives; and Masstor System's videotape cartridge system. (LRW)