This progress report delineates activities completed during the first year of a federally funded project to catalog and preserve the Charles Coffin Collection, located in the Tusculum College Library at Greeneville, Tennessee. The Coffin Collection is described as the nearly intact original library of Greeneville College, which was a frontier…

This historical study report describes phases in the development of applicable standards for cataloging instructional motion picture films. Steps leading to the present state of the art are objectively presented, focusing on standards developed to establish bibliographic control of instructional motion picture films, contemporary reaction to such…

Authors investigated methods of turning research into a form that would be available to the public and would contribute to that public's understanding and awareness of crafts. (Author/RK)

Summarizes undergraduate and graduate physics courses offered in over 140 institutions in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland involving course structures, branches of research, admission requirements, and optional possibilities. The material is useful to physics teachers, career advisors, and interested students. (CC)

Summarizes the undergraduate and graduate physics courses offered in eight medical colleges, involving course structures, admission requirements and research branches. The material is useful to physics teachers, career advisors and students who are interested in the field. (CC)

This review of the research on subject access to library collections focuses on the problems of and prospects for improved online subject access to library collections. Summaries of the general findings of studies on library catalog use and catalog users and some reasons for the frequent failure of subject searches in library catalogs are followed…

Prepared for students who participate in the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) Library Instruction Program (LIP), this document is both a working syllabus for classroom use and an outline of the lecture presentations given by librarian instructors, though it can also be used as a reference guide to review library research methods,…

This report provides the verbatim minutes of the meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on the theme, The Future of Scholarly Communication. Comments by David W. Breneman and Warren J. Haas on the Report of the National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication were followed by general discussion, as was Richard W. Boss's The Library…

The system specifications described have been adopted by the 19 California State University and Colleges Libraries for use with the CL Systems "Expanded Title Record" format. It is anticipated that these specifications will be tested at California State University, Chico, beginning midyear 1981. Should this pilot demonstration prove…

The online catalog discussed in this report extends the present microfiche union catalog development by providing online access to bibliographic records for the holdings of the University of California Libraries. The specifications for the user interface through which the library patron communicates with the online systems to locate materials are…

Developed in anticipation of the adoption of AACR2 by the library community, two plans reported by the General Libraries address the impact on the catalog and staff training. No conflict is anticipated in the absorption of AACR2 and the focus of the first report is on the mechanics of integrating AACR2 headings with headings already in the…

This catalog contains an overview and a table of contents (where applicable) for each of five documents designed for use with MISVE--Management Information System for Vocational Education. (MISVE was designed to provide users with an advanced management information system (MIS) capability that could effectively respond to current information needs…

Ideas and methods for improving library service through changes in library catalogs are presented and discussed. These ideas and methods are in four basic areas: (1) methods for evaluating a library's current catalog(s); (2) costing different forms of the catalog; (3) examining the effects on an individual library's catalog(s) of Anglo-American…

This report summarizes the results of a survey of the 91 libraries--public, special, academic, and school--in the Metropolitan Library Network of Nebraska concerning their serials activity: what union lists were extant in the network area, how those union lists were used in network libraries, and what area librarians would like to see in any…