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Eichhorn, Sara J.; Yonezawa, Michael – Microform and Imaging Review, 1998
Summarizes information that will be used to describe microform sets on the University of California, Irvine's World Wide Web site for microform resources, including title, publisher, price, contents, index/bibliography, reviewed in, location/holdings, and Webpac site. Discusses staff/network resources, HTML/UNIX editors, and indexing/search…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Higher Education
Geary, James W.; Leary, Stephen D. – 1990
In 1987-88, a special project was undertaken involving the identification and verification of significant research collections in microform owned by the Kent State University Libraries. This activity resulted in a printed guide, which was updated in 1990 to reflect additional materials and new information. The revised second edition supersedes the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Black Studies, College Libraries, English Literature
Baatz, Wilmer H. – 1978
The objective of this study was to determine how large research libraries perform the function of collection development. The paper describes collection development theory within the formal organizational structure of the library, identifies the actual decision points involved in selection of materials, and examines the staff and facilities…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Collections
Research Libraries in OCLC: A Quarterly, 1981
The articles in these four issues include discussions of: the Research Libraries Advisory Committee to OCLC; Title II-C grants for bibliographic access/control research projects; cooperative cataloging costs via OCLC; a research project on online public access; an OCLC examination of the UK-MARC format; use of the Comprehensive Index (CINDEX) and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Cataloging, Doctoral Dissertations, Editing
Mandel, Carol A., Comp.; Johnson, Mary P., Comp. – 1981
Data compiled from the 113 research libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries during the 1980-81 academic year display trends that have been emerging since the early 1970s: increasing expenditures, with a greater proportion of expenditures allocated to serials; decreasing numbers of volumes added each year, and little or…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Enrollment, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections
Schuler, S. C., Ed. – 1980
The third of four volumes in a series describing the basic documentation practices involved in the initial setting up and subsequent operation of an information-library organization to provide defense-aerospace scientific and technical information services, this manual consists of three sections. "Information Retrieval," by Tom Norton,…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Coordinate Indexes, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
Zink, Steven D. – 1977
This discussion of the use of computer output microform (COM) as a feasible alternative to the library card catalog includes a brief history of library catalogs and of microform technology since World War II. It is argued that COM catalogs are to be preferred to card catalogs, online catalogs accessed by terminals, and paper printouts. Advantages…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Computer Output Microfilm, Feasibility Studies, Library Catalogs
Sandner, Fred; And Others – 1979
One product of a research project dealing with the storage and maintenance of non-book library materials, this annotated listing focuses on literature that discusses films, filmstrips, transparencies, slides, magnetic tape, maps, microforms, paintings, prints, phonorecords, photographs, and negatives. Titles dealing with the care of audiovisual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiodisc Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Films
White, Robert L. – 1979
Generated as the result of the deliberations of the COM Catalog Advisory Work Group, which depended heavily on a review of the available literature, individual analysis, and group discussion, this report is intended as a general planning document for Virginia Commonwealth university libraries concerning their possible implementation of a COM…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Output Microfilm, Cost Effectiveness
Schwarz, Philip – 1976
This is the summary of a larger paper describing the evolution of a mediated elementary accounting course at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The course was initially developed as a 25 slide-tape lesson course which included 950 visuals and approximately 25 hours of instruction. One hundred students per semester took the course in the following…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Media, Information Dissemination
Rouse, William B.; Rouse, Sandra H. – 1976
Relatively recent developments, ranging from microfilm catalogs to networked circulation systems, have the potential of removing much of the uncertainty from the routing of interlibrary loan requests. The opportunity of purchasing location and availability information changes the performance of a model interlibrary loan network. Data collected in…
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs
Fingland, Geoffrey; And Others – 1974
At a Newspaper Division meeting of the Special Libraries Association four newspaper librarians presented the pros and cons of closed clipping files. The major point in favor of closed files was that they are not as subject to loss and misfiling as are openfiles. However, with closed files close communication is needed between librarian and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Library Circulation
Giles, Louise – 1970
Microform collections offer one of the more promising methods of increasing student learning while, at the same time, responding economically to the pressure of increasing enrollments. This study reports on the first phase of a 3-phase project to determine student acceptance of microform, and on the effectiveness of microform for learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Information Retrieval
Henderson, Madeline M., Comp. – 1970
The challenge of networking is now being extended to cooperative library and information center systems. There are new demands for improved techniques for image storage and transmission, specifically including automated storage and retrieval of microforms and ultra-microforms and new developments in graphic and facsimile transmission. In this…
Descriptors: Automation, Conference Reports, Facsimile Transmission, Information Networks
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
The General Accounting Office reviewed Federal libraries, i.e., executive agency libraries, in Metropolitan Washington to identify problems common to the libraries and to determine how they are being handled. The review revealed that: a central depository could provide numerous benefits; microforms are not used substantially; central direction is…
Descriptors: Administration, Centralization, Copyrights, Federal Government
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