Reviews the characteristics of the Cheshire II system that is being used to implement full-text and fielded searching of bibliographic information for the University of California Berkeley Digital Library Initiative. Examines its performance when applied to a collection of large full-text documents in the TREC Interactive Retrieval Track and its…

Discusses issues librarians need to consider when providing access to electronic journals. Topics include gateways; index and abstract services; validation and pay-per-view; title selection; integration with OPACs (online public access catalogs)or Web sites; paper availability; ownership versus access; usage restrictions; and services offered…

Discusses the need for libraries to clean up their catalog databases to eliminate duplicate entries, update bibliographic or authority records, and correct errors. Reviews pertinent literature and considers methods that include human review as well as software and matching programs. (LRW)

Manufacturers information on monochrome and color television monitors. (Author/HB)

The article lists free and low cost teaching aids which are available from 207 School Shop advertisers. (Author)

These notes prepared for an advanced course on the theory and history of cataloging contain a summary of and comments on three aspects of Domanovszky's cataloging theory: (1) the function of the catalog is to identify all publications of a work, as well as all editions of a publication; (2) a catalog code should specify alternative practices for…

This dictionary of the abbreviations used to identify libraries in union catalogs, bibliographies, and other works is a master list of symbols used by the Library of Congress plus those developed by other bibliographers. Libraries in the United States and foreign countries and commercial producers of microforms are listed by abbreviation and by…

This is the eighth bibliography issued by the Educational Materials Center, and lists publications received in the Center since December 31, 1968. Annotations are provided only where the title is not self-explanatory. The entries in the main section are grouped according to subject: education (history, theories, and issues); comparative and…

This report is the result of a study of a set of existing and proposed catalogs of computer programs and some related material. It discusses the entries used in current catalogs and recommends a standard format usable in a comprehensive, publicly-available catalog. Illustrations of the various components of catalog entries are given. Conventions…

This report constitutes Phase I of a two-part study; a Phase II report will discuss subject cataloging. Phase I is concerned with the materials of a library as individual records (or documents) and as representations of certain works by certain authors--that is, with descriptive, or bibliographic, cataloging. Discussed in the report are (1) the…

Films available from Films Incorporated are listed in this catalog under the following five headings: Art and Culture, Education and Information, Economy and Society, Health and Medicine, and the World Around Us. Each citation includes such data as the film's producer, director, cast, date, running time and whether it is in color, provides a…

The guide is geared to reflect the expanding interest in the history of cinema, in underground and experimental films, in social and political documentaries as well as more conventional Hollywood and foreign classics. It lists over 8,000 16mm films selected from 50 United States distributors. A title directory contains information concerning the…

This is the 1973 version of the annual, cumulative guide to books, journals, and other materials which are available on microfilm and other microforms from Unites States publishers. Theses and dissertations are not listed. It is essentially a listing of microform publications offered for sale on a regular basis. The guide is in alphabetical order.…

Four papers discuss: (1) advantages and disadvantages of uniform serial titles; (2) corporate names as qualifiers in uniform titles; (3) earliest entry cataloging of serials; and (4) latest entry cataloging in an automated environment. (MES)