Traces development of the Higher Education Learning Programmes Information Service database, which locates and describes audiovisual materials for use in higher education. The database's potential, features, and search strategies, and other databases of interest to educators are discussed, stressing the importance of user feedback in determining…

Theft of irreplaceable manuscripts and documents from libraries, archives, historical societies, courthouses, and other repositories has reached alarming proportions. The Society of American Archivists, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, plans to publish continuing, updated lists of materials known to be missing. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the need to impose a rigidly controlled structure on the machine-readable catalog, the machine capabilities and limitations for achieving that control, possibilities for machine control of the catalog, and the extension of those possibilities to permit a degree of control not possible in a manual system. (Author/LS)

This paper describes the impact that technological change over the past few decades has had on a number of key interfaces to the library catalog, including the user, resource, abstract/index, and union catalog interfaces. Areas of focus for future development are then highlighted, including: (1) reassessing data requirements and conventions in…

This booklet presents the 2000 Facts and Impacts report to the Tri-Cities community served by Columbia Basin College (CBC). It provides a snapshot of the college in the late 1990s. Following a message from CBC's president and a list of the members of the Board of Trustees, legislators (District 8), legislators (District 16), president, vice…

Keyword and text string searches of online library catalogs often provide different results according to library and database used and depending upon how books and journals are indexed. For this reason, online databases such as ERIC often provide tutorials and recommendations for searching their site, such as how to use Boolean search strategies.…

A guide to methods for selection and utilization of commercially available or self-produced media-related educational materials in the behavioral sciences includes lists of catalogs and reviews, outstanding films, and slide series. (Author/KM)

This paper describes development of a MARC serials format union catalog of serials called the Minnesota Union List of Serials (MULS). (2 references) (Author)

The BIBCON file management system, designed for use on IBM 360 system equipment, performs two basic functions: (1) it creates MARC structured, bibliographic records from untagged input data; (2) from these records it produces page image output for book catalogs. (7 references) (Author)

A comprehensive automated bibliographic control system has been developed by the New York Public Library. This system is unique in its use of an automated authority system and highly sophisticated machine filing algorithms. (23 references) (Authors)

Discusses the results of a survey published under the title: Curriculum Preferences of California Junior College Journalism Instructors''. (GB)

The Royal Institute of Technology Library in Stockholm operates a computerized SDI service to industry which has encouraged greater use of the library's collections through loans and photocopies. A useful by-product is a union catalog of serials in machine-readable form, from which a photo-composed list was published. (4 references) (Author/SJ)

The Library Management Research Unit tested a survey design to measure and evaluate author catalogue use in four varying libraries. Readers were asked to note details of items not found in the catalogue and the source of the reference. Items were checked to discover the cause of failure.'' (9 references) (Author/DH)

Thailand faces three major problems in bibliographical control and service: an inhibiting and restrictive Printing Law, lack of library cooperation and little financial support. (SJ)