This guide provides educators with a comprehensive list of doctoral dissertations in social studies education completed between 1934 and 1962. A basic bibliographic reference for each entry, containing the author's name, the title of the study, the name of the university where the study was completed, and the date of completion, constitutes the…

The Ohio College Library Center's off-line catalog system is a limited technique for production of card catalogs. Unlike the on-line system, it cannotmake the resources of a region available to users in an individual institution, and it does not have the potential for significantly reducing rate of rise of library per-unit costs. In short, it is…

This report combines and summarizes four 1972 student studies of some of the relationships between the University of California, Berkeley subject catalog and the Library of Congress (LC) subject authority list. It was found that about 1 0/0 of the subject headings used at Berkeley were out of date according to the LC list. About 5 0/0 of the…

Forty-eight motion picture films and filmstrips in the field of marine science are catalogued in this booklet. Following the alphabetical index, one page is devoted to each film indicating its type, producer, recommended grade level, running time, and presence of color and/or sound. A summary of film content, possible uses, and outstanding…

This catalog lists and describes films produced by the National Film Board of Canada which are available for purchase and rental in the United States through various commercial distributors. For each film, the following information is given: title, length, color or black and white, distributor, purchase cost, and a one-paragraph description.…

Audiovisual teaching aids for history, social history, and social studies, that may be bought or rented from suppliers in Britain, are listed in this 270-page catalog. Audiovisual materials include film, filmstrips, slides, overhead projector transparencies, wallsheets, prints, records, tapes and teaching kits. Each catalog entry describes the…

Audiovisual aids for teaching about the geography of North, Central and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, that may be bought or rented from suppliers in Britain, are listed in this 150-page catalog. Audiovisual materials available include films, filmstrips, slides, overhead projector transparencies, wallsheets, prints, records, tapes,…

Some 500 audio and videotapes, scripts, and transcriptions which are available to schools in the U.S. without charge are listed in this catalog. The materials are classified into 15 topics including environmental education, fine arts, health, home economics, industrial education, science and social studies. Each catalog entry describes the…

Among the wide variety of materials available in mocroform edition from the National Cash Register (NCR)/Microcard Editions are papal documents, transcription of the Nuremberg trials, the complete works of Swinburne, and the complete files of many magazines, including many nineteenth century magazines. This catalog indexes offerings alphabetically…

A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog of books, conducted from June 1973 through May 1975 under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49 year-old catalog in the context of interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. (Author)

The project of the Consortium of University Film Centers, aimed at the development of bibliographic control for films, is described in terms of its history and philosophy. (MBR)

Selection of non-print media is often less well-considered than that of books, resulting in the purchase of inappropriate materials and the wasting of money. Ways in which librarians can expand available funds by careful selection are suggested, and a list of sources for media selection is included. (Author/MBR)

This paper describes how problems of input and display in developing a computer-based book catalog including nonroman scripts for the New York Public Library (NYPL) were solved. An innovative approach to filing nonroman entries in a catalog is presented. (Author/KP)

This article deals with the results of a mini-evaluation of the microcatalogue environment at the University of Toronto Library, carried out in 1977. The microcatalogue environment, the purpose of the evaluation, its results, and how these results are used in decision-making are the main focus of this article. (Author/AP)

The paper traces the evolution of Eastman Kodak's computer produced union catalog on microfiche and describes the current operational procedures. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed, as well as possible future development. An example of a title record displayed on microfiche is included. (Author/JPF)