This paper summarizes initiatives related to standards for bibliographic control in Thailand. Topics addressed include: (1) standardized forms for headings; (2) standard bibliographic description; (3) standardized subject headings; (4) standards for classification schemes; (5) standardized format; (6) software application in libraries and…

This book is a guide to the strategies, opportunities, and practicalities of developing an academic career within the British higher education system. Following an introductory chapter, the first three chapters discuss the nature and development of academic careers, while the remaining five chapters examine different academic roles or tasks. The…

This document presents the guidelines for the California Community College 2000-2001 State-Funded Telecommunication and Technology Infrastructure Program (TTIP) Program. The 2000-2001 State Budget Act contains $44.3 million for expenditures on the TTIP. The Act provides that $31,600,000 be allocated to colleges for the following purposes: (1) data…

Selected portions of a longer paper entitled "Incidence relationnelle et institutionelle de la transmission de l'information dans une ecole," presented at the Institut Superieur de Pedagogie, 1973. (HW)

The Associated Colleges of Central Kansas have a cooperative library program that gives students access to 300,000 volumes and 2,800 periodicals. This is possible through a central computer book listing and a telephone hotline. (PG)

Outlines a guided discovery activity for ascertaining the conditions which allow for the correct tracing of networks. (JP)

The problems confronting the interlibrary loan (ILL) librarian and the costs of ILL services, based on a survey of twenty libraries, are reported. (NH)

Examines present and future usage of computer services in libraries, including information storage and retrieval and circulation and inventory control. (MK)

Describes an experiment with the goals of: (1) linking the resources of a large university library and a public library, (2) exploring the usefulness of a high-speed system for transmitting printed library materials, and (3) examining current information seeking patterns and their adaptability to technological systems. (Author/TS)

Communications technology is a highly potent catalyst for many reforms demanded for both medical education and practice. (Editor/IR)

Defines certain progressive changes that the library can and probably should implement internally whether or not the university is willing to improve the librarian's lot in the larger community. (NH)

A discussion of some number patterns which arose from a consideration of the number of diagonals of a general polygon. (MM)

Edited version of an address delivered at Institute on Public Library Management (12th, Madison, Wisconsin, April 26, 1968). The library network has not developed because the public has not recognized its potential usefulness. It can provide a new level of service if the value is not nullified by bureaucratic rigidity. (JS)