A committee on rules fur cataloging machine readable data files (MRDF) recommends areas for revision of the Anglo American Cataloging Rules to integrate collections of MRDF into the mainstream of bibliographic control. The 12 working papers which support and detail these recommendations are appended to this report. They include rationales for…

Heretofore, methods of claiming missing issues of serials publications have been ad hoc. The study describes four methods of claiming and analyzes the performance of three of the methods on 16 arrival patterns of serials. The arrival patterns, selected as workable examples from a random sample of the Kardex files at the University of Utah, were…

The abstracts in this bibliography are from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system and they appeared in its publication "Resources in Education." The documents represented here report on library studies based in Ohio and include reports generated by the state library or resulting from research assisted by state…

Computerization of acquisitions activity is a technological advance already underway. Like all advances in technology it requires advances in knowledge, and future advances will occur only after research has produced the necessary knowledge. Comprehensive system design made possible by computerization will provide acquisitions with the objective…

The Minnesota Computer Aided Library System (MCALS) provides a basis of unification for library service program development in Minnesota for eventual linkage to the national information network. A prototype plan for communications functions is illustrated. A cost/benefits analysis was made to show the cost/effectiveness potential for MCALS. System…

The four papers presented at this weekend school are: (1) "The Effect of the Computer on Libraries" by J. D. Dews; (2) "Machines in a Rural Library Service" by O. S. Newman; (3) "The Education of Libraries in an Age of Mechanization" by D. E. Davidson and (4) "People, Programmes and Problems" by B. J. Perry.…

The Institute on the Automation of Bibliographical Services was held at the University of Maryland, 10-21 June 1968, conducted by the School of Library and Information Services, assisted by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office and the University Computer Science Center. Thirty-nine participants from academic, special, and public…

The three major functions of the Ohio College Library Center's Shared Cataloging System are: 1) provision of union catalog location listing; 2) making available cataloging done by one library to all other users of the system; and 3) production of catalog cards. The system, based on a central machine readable data base, speeds cataloging and…

Topics of discussion during the program portion of this meeting are: "Research Library Security Problems,""Security Measures at the University of Washington Libraries,""Research Libraries and Machine-Readable Information,""Opportunities for Minority Groups in Research Libraries," and "The Berkeley…

The aim was to design a seminar which would allow time for each individual to grow into the subject, to reflect, to participate in discussions, to come back to points as appropriate -- the antithesis of a 'crash course'. The intention was to give all participants a representative introduction to the whole range of what is now available, and to…

Libraries, as well as larger information networks, are necessarily based upon the storage of information files consisting in many cases of written materials and texts such as books, serials, abstracts, manuscripts and archives. At the present stage of the "information explosion" no librarian can afford to ignore the contribution of…

The primary objective of the National Serials Data Program is the design and implementation of a national serials information system. The goals of this system are the provisions of timely, accurate, and comprehensive information about serial publications within a framework of quantitative efficiency and agreed upon cost effectiveness. The intent…

The third phase of a four-phase program developed by the Federal Library Committee Task Force on Library Automation in conjunction with its overall objective of reviewing and reporting upon the status of automation in Federal libraries is reported. The first phase of the overall program appraised the current activities in library automation and…

From experimental work performed, and reported upon in this document, it is concluded that converting the New York State Library (NYSL) shelf list sample to machine readable form, and searching this shelf list using a remote access catalog are technically sound concepts though the capital costs of data conversion and system installation will be…

The design and study of library information networks are enhanced by the use of the concepts which have been developed by graph theorists. In this paper this theme is expanded upon, proposing a general network structure which is believed to be a good model for a wide variety of library and other information networks. The basic concepts from graph…