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type: ORG
entity:
  Physical Education Home Economics Industrial Arts Journalism Mathematics Modern Language Music Physics Psychology Sociology Speech General Gifts


id: 2926
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Not a Shared System: an Account of a Computer Operation Designed Specifically and Solely for Library Use


id: 2928
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Libraries and Automation; Proceedings of the Conference on Libraries and Automation, Airlie Foundation


id: 2933
type: ORG
entity:
  Subject Lists Number of Pages of Each Subject List Aero Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Nuclear Engineering Design Management Sciences Mathematics


id: 3796
type: ORG
entity:
  UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand Corporation: Optimization and Standardization of Information Retrieval Language and Systems


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  Federal Agency Code Legislative Branch General Accounting Office Govemment Printing Office Library of


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  AC Appalachian Regional Commission AR Atomic Energy Commission AI Bureau of the Budget BO Canal Zone Government CV Central Intelligence Agency


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  Civil Aeronautics Board CC Commission of Fine Arts CI Council of Economic Advisers CF Delaware River Basin Commission EE Department of Agriculture AL Department of Commerce CO Department of Defense Office


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  DK Department of Health, Education, & Welfare HH Department of Housing and Urban Development HU Department


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  Federal Maritime Commission FO Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service FQ Federal Power Commission


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Council National Capital Housing Authority National Foundation on Arts and Humanities National Labor Relations Board National Mediation Board


id: 4642
type: ORG
entity:
  TU Panama Canal Company PC Post Office Department PO Railroad Retirement Board RR Renegotiation Board


id: 4641
type: ORG
entity:
  American Standard for a Format for Biblio- graphic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape as Applied to Records Representing Monographic Materials


id: 5123
type: ORG
entity:
  University of Chicago Graduate Library School: Requirements Study for Future Catalogs (Chicago: University of Chicago Graduate Library School


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type: ORG
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id: 5256
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Proposal for a Mechanized Inforrrwtion Retrieval System for the Missiles and Space Systems Engineering Library


# bib

id: 2922
title: Computer Based Acquisitions System at Texas A##TITLE##I University
author: Morris, Ned C.
date: 1968-03-01
txt: ./txt/2922.txt
cache: ./cache/2922.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  In September, 1966, a system was initiated at the University which provides for the use of automatically produced multiple orders and for the use of change cards to update order information on previously placed automatic production of a weekly books on order list or ''''Processing Information List" similar to that reported by Schultheiss to be in use at the As a first step, the book order request form was redesigned to serve the catalog department for use in the Library of Congress card order RI!CORD OfSCRI,.TION BOOK ORDER CARD # 1 fORIIIAT NO. TIOII CHANGE CARD #1 (PROCESSED 1-lf!EN BOOK RECEIVED ) fORIIIAT NO. Example of Computer Produced Books on Order List "books on order" list by main entry (Figure 6). sent to the catalog department for use as an order for cards from the received will appear on the "books on order" list next to the original 


id: 2923
title: A Book Catalog at Stanford
author: Johnson, Richard D.
date: 1968-03-01
txt: ./txt/2923.txt
cache: ./cache/2923.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Although the card catalogs were never prepared, the planning was of considerable value later in establishing field and record lengths for the machine record, as well as in securing general agreement on the kind of A complete catalog was to be printed annually (author & title, subject, preparation of the programs, library staff began in July, 1965, the inputting of cataloging information. On the one hand, this has meant a shorter record and greater simplicity in inputting data; on the other hand, it became necessary to maintain a name authority file when the form adopted for the book catalog Added copies and volumes are entered by preparing Area 10 information only and punching S in column 61, the shelf list indicator. filing of entries in the shelf list and in the author & title and subject prints the pages of the author & title and subject catalogs.


id: 2924
title: Brown University Library Fund Accounting System
author: Wedgeworth, Robert
date: 1968-03-01
txt: ./txt/2924.txt
cache: ./cache/2924.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  fund accounting and the maintenance of an outstanding order file. The Fund Accounting System of the Brown University .Library was initiated on the basis of a program developed in April, 1966. and more effective control over the approximately 150 fund accounts administered by the Order Department of the University Library. a list of items produced by computer from punch cards in which order · financial accounting for book purchases based on pre-punched cards corresponding to purchase orders typed ( 4). The processing file documents, each containing a fund slip, an L.C. order slip, and a cataloger''s work slip on a System is to maintain current balances on the various library fund accounts and to maintain a file of outstandmg orders exclusive of standing This program validates Fund Code, rejects duplicate order numbers and encumbers List Price, thereby reducing Net Available. Record Cards must match an existing order number on file.


id: 2925
title: Comparative Costs of Converting Shelf List Records to Machine Readable Form
author: Chapin, Richard E.; Pretzer, Dale H.
date: 1968-03-01
txt: ./txt/2925.txt
cache: ./cache/2925.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  different methods of conversion: keypunching, paper-tape typeW1·iting, The record converted included call number, copy number, first 39 letters of the author''s name, were scanned electronically and converted to magnetic tape; Johns Hopkins, working from microfilm copy of the shelf list, used special type font Cost figures for converting library records are scarce. The Johns Hopkins conversion of "about 300,000 · cards" was accomplished by optical scanning and cost $18,170 (3,p.4). available to most research libraries: keypunching, paper-tape typewriting, The shelf list records of the Michigan State University Library were method recorded the bibliographic data by use of an IBM 026 keypunch. In the conversion keypunching cost 6.63 cents per record. Average Cost Per Shelf List Record Converted Costs of Shelf List Conversion/ CHAPIN and PRETZER 73 Costs of Shelf List Conversion/ CHAPIN and PRETZER 73 conversion, at a cost of 6 or 7 cents a record, then the library cannot 


id: 2926
title: The Development and Administration of Automated Systems in Academic Libraries
author: De Gennaro, Richard
date: 1968-03-01
txt: ./txt/2926.txt
cache: ./cache/2926.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  This approach is based on the premise that practically all computerbased library systems are in an experimental or research-and-development stage with questionable economic justification, and that it is unnecessary and uneconomical for every library to undertake difficult and done with local funds, home-grown staff, batch processing and even second generation computers, the total systems approach must be based on While the old stage one of library automation was one in which librarians almost exclusively did the design and programming, it is doubtful team of librarians and computer experts should not be able to work effectively together to design and implement future library systems. processing equipment and techniques, and an over-all view of the general state of the library automation art, including its potential and direction of development. effective library automation work has been done by the people who combine the abilities of the systems analyst with those of the expert programmer and are capable of doing a complete project themselves.


id: 2927
title: Automated Book Order and Circulation Control Procedures at the Oakland University Library
author: Auld, Lawrence
date: 1968-05-31
txt: ./txt/2927.txt
cache: ./cache/2927.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Automated systems of book order and circulation control using an IBM Congress card orders, Oakland University invoice-vouchers, a complete weekly: purchase orders, Library of Congress card order slips, and Oakland University invoice-vouchers. Library of Congress order slips, completely computer printed ( including the symbols indicating the reasons for the Library of Congress''s possible inability to supply cards, the account number, and formula for the Then four items of information are keypunched into a "received" card: the purchase order number, the actual A "received" card actuates the following sequence: the order status is changed from "on-order" to "inprocessing", the encumbrance is returned to the book fund, the actual price is charged against the book fund, an Oakland University invoicevoucher is printed and a voucher card punched. When a dealer returns the purchase order card reporting that he cannot supply a book, this information ·is keypunched into the card: the LIB 014 To prepare Library of Congress card orders for new book 


id: 2928
title: Creation of Computer Input in an Expanded Character Set
author: Black, Donald V.
date: 1968-05-31
txt: ./txt/2928.txt
cache: ./cache/2928.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Keypunching of an expanded character set for library catalog data is were shelf list cards, the master record at the University of California h 2 1ra"eris;fuon characters 01 library catalog data on more t an 0 anguag , the shell list consisted 01 both printed Library of Congress caIds and cards Ed «: .''ifJ square, which was not used at Santa Cruz, was not counted.fu ~ All data elements were encoded in fixed card fields; that is, the field Date Rec''d 37-40 Month, year receIved at Library Publ./Source 1-60 May be continued on a second card two forms of shelf list cards, as mentioned above: Library of Congres~ "d the programs written to process the catalog card data. Cost Per Title to Produce Machine Readable Catalog Data elements of data within the catalog record than does Santa Cruz. COSTS OF LIBRARY CATALOG CARDS prodUction, but neither library routinely produced cards.


id: 2929
title: Costs of Library Catalog Cards Produced by Computer
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
date: 1968-05-31
txt: ./txt/2929.txt
cache: ./cache/2929.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Early in September, 1964, the Yale Medical Library.put into routine operation the Columbia-Harvard-Yale computerized technique for catalog The Columbia Medical Library and Harvard Medical Library also installed IBM 870 Document Writers and tested the programs for card procedure for catalog card production, among them the Medical Library At the University of Kentucky an 870 Document Writer types catalog cards, but new programs were written to run Nearly all reports on catalog card production limit study of costs to ready to be filed into a catalog, cost 16.6 cents per card; cards produced by a machine method consisting of a tape typewriter and a very to drive the 870 Document Writer for production of catalog cards on oneup forms. Table 1 contains cost figures for catalog card production by the four Costs of Library Catalog Cards/ KILGOUR 127 Costs of Library Catalog Cards/ KILGOUR 127 


id: 2930
title: Bell Laboratories'' Library Real-Time Loan System (BELLREL)
author: Kennedy, R. A.
date: 1968-05-31
txt: ./txt/2930.txt
cache: ./cache/2930.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Bell Telephone Laboratories has established an on-line circulation system linking two terminals in each of its three largest libraries to a central of collections, immediate reporting on publication availability or a borrower''s record, automatic reserve follow-up; reduced labor; and increased · reservations and queries with real-time speed and responsiveness; additionally, it provides a wide range of other products and information copies of a title in the library system (union catalogs serve this purpose, after some steps and card handling) but the availability of account number, a five-digit number which is keyed in or read from a prepunched card for all loans, reservations and other transactions requiring Twenty-two different transaction codes are currently available to handle loans, returns, renewals, reservations and queries in real time. the book and the number of copies still available for loan at each library. operation, the requester is automatically charged with the book, the holding library is told his name and address, and mailing follows.


id: 2931
title: An Integrated Computer Based Technical Processing System in a Small College Library
author: Scott, Jack W.
date: 1968-08-31
txt: ./txt/2931.txt
cache: ./cache/2931.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  A functioning technical processing system in a two-year community college library utilizes a model 2201 Friden Flexowriter with punch card 1440 computer, with two tape and two disc drives, to produce all acquisitions and catalog files based primarily on a single typing at the time of mechanized order files and shelf lists, catalogs in both the traditional 3x5 6) to provide catalog copy for technical processes to use in producing library use: one Friden Flexowriter (Model 2201) with Card Punch Control Unit and Tab Card Reading Unit, one IBM 026 Key Punch with alternate programming, and guaranteed time on the college-owned IBM The tab cards, containing full order information, are used as the magnetic tape order file is used to prepare tab cards containing all original order information and the cards are sent to the Library with a 


id: 2932
title: Cost Comparison of Computer Versus Manual Catalog Maintenance
author: Kountz, John C.
date: 1968-08-31
txt: ./txt/2932.txt
cache: ./cache/2932.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Comparative costs obtained were $ .89 per entry for computer assisted catalog This system, depicted in Figure 1, consists of: 1) centralized card production, and; 2) branch catalog maintenance. data and the record number for each Master File entry in alphabetical Book Catalog and periodic cumulative supplements of new entries. The cost figures presented in Table 4 reflect the total card production Manual Catalog Card Production and Maintenance Costs Initial Costs for Machine Readable (Master File) Entries However, the cost per entry figure for computer assisted file maintenance The figures developed in Table 9 establish a cost per entry for file The Locate File update input cost is identical to that used for the entry The Biblio File update costs are the computer keyline production figures presented in Table 6. $0.0242 is the cost per entry for file maintenance for one year.


id: 2933
title: Subject Reference Lists Produced by Computer
author: Chen, Ching-chih; Kingham, E. Robert
date: 1968-08-31
txt: ./txt/2933.txt
cache: ./cache/2933.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  A system developed to produce fourteen subject reference lists by IBM lists to guide them in the use of library materials, and library reference Such subject reference lists could be easily generated if the library Serial number is assigned to every new entry to maintain the alphabetical order of the complete listing. PAGE 2 REFER!IICE LIBRARY MASTER/fiLE HAIN''miANCE PRE-EDIT REPORT KARCH 0}, 1968 PAGE l REFERENCE LIBRARY MASTER/FILE MAINTENANCE REPORT JANUARY 30, 1968. This list (Figure 7) is an alphabetical summary (in serial number sequence) containing added entries only from the "maintenance" run. The first edition of the reference lists was available for distribution at printed, costs, and sale to students and faculty of first edition lists. Questionnaire on Use of Reference Subject Lists. Subject Reference Lists/ CHEN and KINGHAM 197 Subject Reference Lists/ CHEN and KINGHAM 197 Subject Reference Lists/ CHEN and KINGHAM 197 System Reference Library, File no.


id: 2934
author: Murrill, Donald P.
date: 1968-08-31
txt: ./txt/2934.txt
cache: ./cache/2934.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  gram produces punched cards which instruct the 870 to type a library Producing library catalog cards and accessions bulletins with the aid preparation of 3x5 catalog cards and the library accessions bulletin. punch, an auxiliary card punch, and a second typewriter; but for an output of library catalog cards and bulletin only the Control Unit and one such as parentheses, brackets, colon and semicolon, are obtained by punching the upper-case shift character in the card immediately before the to a statement which punches the last tracings data and a special character ( ) which, during printout, will cause the typewriter to tum up (Punch statement for main entry on tracing card, drawn from card to the heading, it is punched with the subject code number. The data for the Library Bulletin program consists of the cards which were punched manually for the catalog card program.

title:
  Production of Library Catalog Cards and Bulletin Using an IBM 1620 Computer and an IBM 870 Document Writing System


id: 2935
title: Conversion of Bibliographic Information to Machine Readable Form Using On-Line Computer Terminals
author: Balfour, Frederick M.
date: 1968-12-01
txt: ./txt/2935.txt
cache: ./cache/2935.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  readable form the entire shelf list of the Libraries of the State University IBM DATATEXT~ the on-line computer service which was used for the conversion, provided an upperand lowercase typewriter which transmitted data to disk storage of a digital computer. to convert library bibliographic information to machine readable catalog to machine readable form would provide the greatest improvement in library services and operations. experience in using magnetic tape for the handling of bibliographic information, so that when the Library of Congress'' MARC Project begins consoles, data sets and telephone lines were added, and the Conversion Mter three weeks of operation, it was obvious that the typists could tag at the console, thus making Later, typists were trained in several sessions by one of the Library''s typing staff. typed into "working storage" for an hour, inputting 15 to 30 shelf list "Hours Typed" is time that consoles were actually being used to input or correct cards.


id: 2936
title: Bibliographic Retrieval from Bibliographic Input; the Hypothesis and Construction of a Test
author: Ruecking, Jr., Frederick H.
date: 1968-12-01
txt: ./txt/2936.txt
cache: ./cache/2936.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  A study of problems associated with bibliographic retrieval using unverified input data supplied by requesters. which accepts such data must be designed 1) to increase the level of confidence through machine-generated search structures and variable threshholds and 2) to reduce the dependence upon spelling accuracy, punctuation, spacing and word order. indicates, use of the entire title for searching would present distinct problems for retrieval systems ( 4) . code derived from the compression of author and title information supplied by the user. It is assumed that a similar code is provided for all entries of the data base using the same compression rules for main and added of the significant title words contain less than ten characters. At the time the input data is read, the existence of title, author, edition, words in the supplied title which must be matched by the base code.


id: 2937
title: Automatic Retrieval of Biographical Reference Books
author: Weil, Cherie B.
date: 1968-12-01
txt: ./txt/2937.txt
cache: ./cache/2937.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  Changes in reference services themselves, however, may make automation of question-answering practical. will mean two things to reference librarians: greater concentration of resources, allowing more specialized books and mechanization; and screening of questions at the local level, letting reference centers concentrate The categorizing system was based on two nearly universal generalizati.ons about biographical reference books: 1) They are consistently confined to biographies of persons who have something in common: for example, being alive or dead; or having the same nationality, sex, occupation, religion, race, memberships; or possessing some combination of those as to the specifics contained in each biographical reference book in the SEX, LIVING, NAT (nationality), OCCUP (occupation), MIN ( minorities), DATE, INDEX, SPECl and SPEC2 (specifics). same question ignoring already retrieved books each time, he will eventually have a comprehensive list of possible sources in the data that have A scheme for categorizing biographical reference books by their exclusive and specific categories makes it possible to automatically retrieve 


id: 2938
title: Compression Word Coding Techniques for Information Retrieval
author: Nugent, William R.
date: 1968-12-01
txt: ./txt/2938.txt
cache: ./cache/2938.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  is on codes useful in creating directories to large data files. Recursive Decomposition is a selected letter code devised by the author are Recursive Decomposition Coding or Transition Distance Transition Distance Code: Alphacheck. In Transition Distance Coding, the natural bias of letters and letter distribution of transition distances in English words is essentially uniform." algorithm for Transition Distance Coding but not in Alphacheck. The method of Transition Distance Coding is used to operate on a modulo product of primes associated with transition distances of permuted the transition distances, beginning with 5 so that the alphanumeric base ( 36) and all numbers are relatively prime. When used with a selected letter compression .code, it operates on A process practically identical to that of Transition Distance Coding is (Transition Distance Coding), since this was designed to operate on full Letter Positions and Primes used in Transition Distance Coding 


id: 2939
title: MARC II and COBOL
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Droz, Julius R.
date: 1968-12-01
txt: ./txt/2939.txt
cache: ./cache/2939.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  length MARC records containing variable length fields. Congress for the MARC Distribution Service, some potential users of machine readable data have expressed doubts that MARC formatted records tape was in the Library of Congress'' MARC processing format. the analysis of the COBOL language with the task at hand, i.e, the programming effort required to produce the necessary reports from a magnetic tape file of MARC records. Leader Communications Control Fixed Record Variable Library of Congress MARC Processing Format. MARC records at the Library of Congress are contained on magnetic The control fields contain alphameric data elements and are recorded like variable fields although many have a fixed length. field is identified by a 3-byte numeric tag in the record directory In COBOL, the MARC file and records, along with the option card file Output of COBOL Language Program Using MARC II Data. COBOL was successfully used for the computer processing of MARC records.


id: 3794
title: An Automated Music Programmer (MUSPROG)
author: Harrison, David F.; Herber, Randolph J.
date: 1969-03-01
txt: ./txt/3794.txt
cache: ./cache/3794.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  In designing a coded set of instructions to perform these tasks, it was deemed necessary that any attempt at the selection or compilation of a series of music programs should be made in accordance with certain criteria supplied to the system by the user, and In the final operation of the program, each duplicate title of a work any single work within it, the type of music desired, and additional information, such as date, time and title of the program to be aired and an indication of the station for which the program is to be selected. A program selection card contains the following data: Title of program to be selected, day and time. of titles on the master file the program will tend to select the longest minutes and twelve seconds, MUSPROG selected the programs, updated the catalog, checked for duplication of selections, timed each program, 


id: 3795
title: High School Library Data Processing
author: Flora, Betty; Willhardt, John
date: 1969-03-01
txt: ./txt/3795.txt
cache: ./cache/3795.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY DATA PROCESSING Planning and operation of an automated high school library system is using library data processing are the Oak Park-River Forest High School Data processing at Leavenworth High School was made possible by The Leavenworth Data Processing Library System was set up to 1) order all new library books; 2) complete shelf cards and book checkout overdue notices; and 7) provide library inventory, book count lists and The high school leases the following IBM data processing equipment: is punched from lists of books to be ordered and only the following information and columns are punched: author name (columns 14-35), title by data processing students in the high school, working occasionally during class, but mostly after class and on Saturdays on a voluntary basis. When new books are received, the Library staff discards Shelf Card B Cards are pulled by the Library staff and sent to Data Processing,.


id: 3796
title: File Organization of Library Records
author: Warheit, I. A.
date: 1969-03-01
txt: ./txt/3796.txt
cache: ./cache/3796.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  In addition, library-type file maintenance, organization and search are The tendency today, however, is to build a single master file with various functional fields where bibliographic information, ordering, and purchasing data, loan records, location information and other item control There are three basic file organization schemes in use today for information retrieval: the serial file, the inverted file and the list process file Although the combined file organization of a serial record file and an inverted index does cost more to maintain than serial or list file organization, it provides such superior search capabilities that it has become the inverted file search, in · its basic form, takes the request descriptors, obtains the list of record addresses or items under each relevant descriptor, bibliographic record on the serially organized main file and the index in File Organization of Library Records/W ARHEIT 29 File Organization of Library Records/W ARHEIT 29 


id: 3797
title: A Fast Algorithm for Automatic Classification
author: Dattola, R. T.
date: 1969-03-01
txt: ./txt/3797.txt
cache: ./cache/3797.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  In information retrieval applications, the number of elements may approach several hundred thousand or even a million documents, as in the case of a large library. This immediately poses two serious problems: the storage space necessary to store the matrix increases as the square of the number of documents, and the time required to calculate the matrix also increases quadratically. Tables 3 and 4 show the results of scoring the documents in the sample collection against the profiles from Table 1 (cutoff= 10). Clusters Resulting from Document Scoring the new algorithm, documents are assigned to more than one cluster on loose documents to be assigned to clusters after the first iteration; a document to score higher against profiles of smaller clusters. a document to score higher against profiles of smaller clusters. If the number of documents in the cluster is not too large, number of clusters desired; 2) approximate percentage of loose documents 


id: 3798
title: Book Reviews
author: Goldwyn, A. J.; De Gennaro, Richard; Osborn, Laura K.; Guthrie, Gerry D.
date: 1969-03-01
txt: ./txt/3798.txt
cache: ./cache/3798.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  This book reprints, describes, summarizes or refers to every item in book to look, he can find very useful information, but just leafing through and other complex data bases calls for printing and other output capabilities which exceed those now commonly available with computers. puter produced library publications, such as book and periodical catalogs Some pioneers have already made good use of this advanced technology to produce quality catalogs and lists; this book will second describes many types of computer peripherals and gives considerable attention to the various codes used for computer and printing equipment data input. The objectives of the book as given in the preface are: to offer a description, discussion, critique, and collection of facts and data on coordinate indexing as one of the systems which may be used to intellectually indexing are included so that the material has value for anyone interested The first part of this book describes man''s interaction with recorded 


id: 4641
title: USA Standard for a Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape
author: Sectional Subcommittee Z39, American Standards Institute
date: 1969-05-31
txt: ./txt/4641.txt
cache: ./cache/4641.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  USA STANDARD FOR A FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION INTERCHANGE ON MAGNETIC TAPE National Library of Medicine, and National Agricultural Library Implementation of the Proposed American Standard for a Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape as Applied to Records 0.2 This standard defines a format which is intended for the interchange of bibliographic records on magnetic tape. length (in characters) of the delimiter plus data element identifier) A character used to terminate a variable field within a bibliographic record. A data element which indicates the relation of the bibliographic record to a file (e.g., new, updated, etc.). The entry map is a data element in character positions [Since bibliographic data is usually variable in length, the structure of an entry in the directory will usually follow the length of field, and starting character position) other data entry consisted of a 3-digit tag, no length of field data 


id: 4642
title: Appendix I
author: Sectional Subcommittee Z39, American Standards Institute
date: 1969-05-31
txt: ./txt/4642.txt
cache: ./cache/4642.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  The record terminator will consist of the "group separator" (ASCII character AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSED AMERICAN STANDARD FOR A FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION INTERCHANGE ON MAGNETIC The data element identifier will consist of one basic character. A library character set for the roman alphabet and romanized non-roman alphabets necessitates a larger number of The correlation of the character set to digital form code The basic digital form code for the character set is The indicator is a two-character code consisting of basic characters specifying the origin or authority for the data in each variable field. Each directory entry consists of the following data elements : Each directory entry consists of the following data elements : CONTENT This is the classification code of the subject CONTENT This is the classification code of the subject This is the classification code of the provisional subject term in data element 420 


id: 4643
title: Appendix II
author: Sectional Subcommittee Z39, American Standards Institute
date: 1969-05-31
txt: ./txt/4643.txt
cache: ./cache/4643.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  AND SUBRECORD RELATIONSHIP FIELDS IN THE PROPOSED A subrecord directory will be used when a bibliographic record consists of more than one subrecord. 1.1 Entries in Subrecord Directory The format of each entry in the subrecord directory is as for multiple subrecords describing bibliographic units which have the same type-of-record 1.1.1.2 Type-of-Record and Bibliographic Level When the subrecord does not describe a primary bibliographic unit, the type-of-record A subrecord relationship field will be present if, and only if, a subrecord directory is present. The subrecord relationship field, when The subrecord relationship field, when present, shall contain fixed fields which are used to indicate the relationships of subrecords to each other. The format of each relationship field is as shown : 64 subrecords with the same type-of-record and bibliographic The tags in the subrecord relationship field have the three ( 3) basic characters used to indicate the relationship between subfields.


id: 4644
title: Book Reviews
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.; Donohue, Joseph C.; Prior, John A.; Leimkuhler, F. F.; Atkinson, Hugh C.
date: 1969-05-31
txt: ./txt/4644.txt
cache: ./cache/4644.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  MARC Manuals Used by the Library of Congress prepared by the Information Systems Office, Library of Congress. or MARC II data for experiment or operations, complete information on MARC Manuals is an indispensable publication for any library contemplating use of, or using, MARC II tapes. Library Association needed hardly a month to produce the MARC Manuals. Bureau of Information Sciences Research, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers, The State University. reporting them, 6) comprehensive reviews, 7) bibliographies, 8) evaluative articles, and 9) directories to current research. well as bibliographies or literature surveys of fields outside Information These criteria, and the book''s subject classification scheme, are themselves useful and they reflect considerable thought, even though the user A bibliography on information science and technology Coward prepared these documents for users of BNB MARC records. These two publications contain much useful information about MARC Library & Information Science Abstracts.


id: 4663
title: MARC International
author: Coward, Richard E.
date: 1969-12-01
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  the Library of Congress and the British National Bibliography the opportunity to look outwards at other systems being developed in other countries. The traditional method of distributing Library of Congress bibliographic information is to provide catalogue cards or proof sheets. The original MARC project ( 1) was "an experiment to test the feasability of distributing Library of Congress cataloguing in machine readable of the MARC I project; its end product was a catalogue record on magnetic tape. form of presentation, as best exemplified by a Library of Congress catalogue card, has been developed which holds all the essential data and What is less understandable is that the Library of Congress should transfer the non-standard cataloguing rules established by provide for international exchange a standard MARC record together with American MARC Projects not as systems for distributing bibliographic information but as the forerunners of an international bibliographic network.


id: 4665
title: Management Planning for Library Systems Development
author: Bellomy, Fred L.
date: 1969-12-01
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summary:
  This paper deals with the application to library systems development programs of planning techniques which long ago proved their usefulness in the requirements of a major library systems development program and Similarly, plans should include consideration of every major activity required to achieve the objectives, but the level of detail may vary widely A library administration begins the process of developing objectives for a modernization program by reviewing existing library Special, single-end-item projects, like facilities development, objectives or policy formulation, major systems projects (i.e. the development of a new module), etc., are a part of the management apparatus of the system. Library Systems Development Program Work Breakdown Structure. When a single set of concepts is finally selected, estimates of development and operating costs for a new module based on the concept, together with its projected effectiveness, should be made and compared with 


id: 4666
title: An Analysis of Cost Factors in Maintaining and Updating Card Catalogs
author: Dolby, J. L.; Forsyth, V. J.
date: 1969-12-01
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summary:
  The cited report provided some information about the cost of computerized library catalogs. spent on cataloging adds cost to the study that tends to reduce the number of libraries willing to report; those that do report may or may not cataloging operation, three sources of information were used: 1) a detailed analysis made as part of an overall time and motion study of operations in the Lockheed Research Library ( 3); a detailed study of the cataloging and processing activities of the New York Public Library as a preliminary to possible automation of some of these operations ( 4); and a detailed study of the acquisitions, cataloging, and other processing operations for the Columbia University science libraries ( 5) . The simplest conclusion to reach from a study of Table 2 is that cataloging costs vary widely from one library to another.


id: 4667
title: MARC Program Research and Development: A Progress Report
date: 1969-12-01
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summary:
  3) A content edit program generates records in the final processing format. At this stage, mnemonic tags are converted to numeric form, subfield codes may be supplied, implicit fixed fields are set, etc. purpose of this article is to give a progress report on work in three significant areas : 1) automatic tagging of data elements by format recognition programs; 2) file analysis by a statistical program called GENESIS; format are recorded in binary, packed decimal, or EBCDIC notation depending on the characteristics of the data and the processing required. Specifies the MARC record data element( s) characters in the data element of the MARC record being The personal name main entry field (tag 100) of each MARC record The data base would be searched for records with LC card number field it can query any data base that contains records in the MARC processing 

author:
  Avram, Henriette D.; Crosby, Alan S.; Pennington, Jerry G.; Rather, John C.; Rather, Lucia J.; Whitmer, Arlene


id: 4668
author: Lipetz, Ben-Ami; Stangl, Peter; Taylor, Kathryn F.
date: 1969-12-01
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summary:
  Its acceptability as a substitute for conventional catalog searching methods is questioned unless recall performance can be improved, either by use of the and 98.67% accuracy (precision) in a test of his method in which unverified book order requests were matched against a MARC I data base method when applied to bibliographic retrieval from a library catalog. method by manual simulation, and to test its recall performance in real paper came from 126 searches in which the catalog users had been successful in locating the specific documents that they were seeking. instance to the author-title search clues supplied by the catalog user and Ruecking''s method was designed for use with English-language titles catalog, only 88 were retrieved by the compression-code method-a recall were retrieved by the compression-code method-a recall rate of 73%. The test considered real document searches that were concluded successfully in an actual library using a manual catalog; recall is 

title:
  Performance of Ruecking''s Word-compression Method When Applied to Machine Retrieval from a Library Catalog


id: 4669
title: Book Reviews
date: 1969-12-01
txt: ./txt/4669.txt
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summary:
  for the development and implementation of a Connecticut Library Research Center (see ERIC Document ED 0221512). Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 2d Edition, Washington, D.C.: Educational Resources Information Center, Bureau of Research, Office of Education, 1969. The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors is, by its own admission, an authority list ("Only those descriptors actually used for indexing are placed controlled vocabulary indexing/ retrieval; an authority list may be used provide a good discussion of the problems of indexing and "thesaurus" development, especially concerning the need for multi-term entries. Guide to Reprints provides an annual, cumulative list of books, journals titles listed in Announced Reprints. gives the date of the first time a reprint title is listed, eventually librarians edition containing 8880 titles held by 35 libraries was published in the with less information as to title changes than in this list); the use of 

author:
  Taylor, Robert S.; Rush, James E.; Demos, John; Rees, Jr., Thomas H.; Kilgour, Frederick G.; Orne, Jerold; Gorman, Michael; Braden, Irene


id: 5123
title: Concept of an On-Line Computerized Library Catalog
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
date: 1970-03-01
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summary:
  of investigation that will yield findings useful in development of mechanized, descriptive cataloging. be possible to prepare entries mechanically from title pages for inclusion who obtains a novel by use of an author-title entry in a catalog is not For the library user the words in an author''s name, a title, and subject headings, are index labels that he uses to find a book that contains information he needs. retrieved from a library by use of a library catalog is via an author-title The organization for a computerized catalog containing entries prepared mechanically from title pages would be somewhat different from be carried out to produce knowledge needed for development of a computerized library catalog hospitable to descriptive cataloging entries produced mechanically: 1) use of library catalogs; 2) specification for derived keys; 3) identification of title-page words useful and not useful for occurence on classical catalog entries, title pages, and in subject indexes, 


id: 5124
title: Library Mechanization at Auburn Community College
author: Hilbert, Eloise F.
date: 1970-03-01
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summary:
  Use of an IBM 1401 computer and a single keypunch operation for changing a college book collection from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress Decisions were made to automate a projected reclassification, the acquisitions and circulation systems and accounting procedures, and to produce lists of the serial holdings ( 4). The IBM Processing installation used for the Library comprised the following: 1401 computer, 12K storage; 1402 Card Reader Punch; 1403 create the circulation book card, duplicating accession number, call number, author and title. A machine readable shelf list made possible an automated circulation The marked circulation cards are sent three times a week to the Data Center, where the Old and new circulation cards are machine filed together by accession number and returned When the book and its Library of Congress cards have been received, The shelf list is kept in the IBM card form, and a book catalog could 


id: 5125
title: Teaching with MARC Tapes
author: Atherton, Pauline; Tessier, Judith
date: 1970-03-01
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summary:
  A computer based laboratory for library science students to use in class MARC file ( 48,POO records, approx.) were used for search and retrieval Data bases, programs, and seven different class assignments are described and evaluated for their impact on library education in general and individual students and faculty in particular. the MARC Pilot Project tapes as the file of catalog records, has been the computer programs and the MARC tapes could be used by library school faculty in class assignments and by students for independent research. deal with the various class assignments and student projects developed The facilities at LEEP include MARC Pilot Project data bases, computer programs, and personnel. Class Assignments and Student Projects Using LEEP three titles; search the MARCS/DPS file for the assigned number; compare titles cataloged with titles some students the only experience with LEEP was a class assignment Program Description: MARC I Record Sort" (NAPS 00881); 5) "LEEP 


id: 5126
title: Processing of MARC Tapes for Cooperative Use
author: Bierman, Kenneth John; Blue, Betty Jean
date: 1970-03-01
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summary:
  A centralized data base of MARC II records distributed by the Library This report describes the cooperative system developed by the Department of Libraries to maintain and make available MARC II records to maintaining a MARC master file of all records sent out by the Library selected records by LC card number from the MARC master file for copies specified LC card number records from the MARC master file to Inputs are 1) a MARC master (a tape in MARC format and code containing all records merged to date), which is in LC card number sequence; and 2) MARC "items" (a tape ( s) in MARC format and code a 12-position LC card number and a code indicating if this MARC record This program prints all LC card numbers on any tape in MARC code MARC code and format, its output a printed listing of all Library of using MARC records from the State data base for bibliographic information for its machine produced book catalog.


id: 5127
title: Design of Library Systems for Implementation with Interactive Computers
author: Warheit, I. A.
date: 1970-03-01
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mime: application/pdf
summary:
  of catalog cards, book catalogs, periodical check-in, serials holdings, circulation control systems, acquisitions programs and searching of files, or Systems librarians have been busy designing individual programs, building special computer stored files, implementing holding program; the development of authority lists in book catalog programs; the simultaneous updating of accession files and circulation control It is this total systems concept which is the new and current development of library Electronic Data Processing ( EDP). One of the basic elements of this hardware was the development of real-time, on-line, terminal-oriented, timeshared systems. were quick to take advantage of their in-house, time-share system to implement acquisitions, catalog input and library bulletin programs (9). With the advent of time-shared, on-line capabilities and the potentiality of building total, integrated systems, librarians today who are planning EDP systems are faced with a number of design decisions: 1) Should 


id: 5128
title: Methods of Randomization of Large Files with High Volatility
author: Mitchell, Patrick C.; Burgess, Thomas K.
date: 1970-03-01
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summary:
  position, and relative record address ( RRA) in this paper, refers to the computed offset address of a record in the file, relative to the starting address of the file is track 40, a record with RRA = 5 would have its home Direct Access Methods, the system locates that disk address generated file was being occupied by records-this method became unusable; records were then located so far from their original addresses that terminal of the input data, map records uniformly across the available file space. The algorithm which resulted utilizes a pseudo-random number generator, RAND (7) developed at the W.S.U. Computing Center RANDL, N to the purchase order number of the record to be located, and by using Inputs to this program are: a) an algorithm to generate relative record locations; b) a there are six records to map into a direct access file of eight locations.


id: 5129
title: Book Reviews
date: 1970-03-01
txt: ./txt/5129.txt
cache: ./cache/5129.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  It attempts to give a good introduction to current practices in library automation and a fairly detailed ac4 Kimber present computerized systems for various library activities: Chapter III, "Ordering and Acquisitions," Chapter IV, "Circulation Control," The second issue of the "International Directory of Research and Development Scientists" ( IDR&DS) iists the names and organizational addresses of 152,648 authors whose papers were listed in either 4o<Current Library Automation: A State of the Art Review. sented at the 1967 Institute and included in this work were on the subjects of: library systems analysis (how tO'' do it), influence of automation first reader in library automation but not as the state-of-the-art review Cenralized Book Processing: A Feasibility Study Based on Colorado Academic Libraries by Lawrence E. Phase III involved an operational book-processing center on a one-year A recent survey of catalog use at three university libraries yielded some 

author:
  Lee, Sul H.; Murdock, John W.; Payne, Charles T.; Devlin, Eleanor R.; Dudley, Norman; Guthrie, Gerry D.


id: 5245
title: Orthographic Error Patterns of Author Names in Catalog Searches
author: Tagliacozzo, Renata; Kochen, Manfred; Rosenberg, Lawrence
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5245.txt
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mime: application/pdf
summary:
  ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR PATTERNS OF AUTHOR NAMES An investigation of error patterns in author names based on data from a Table 1 gives the distribution of incorrect and/or incomplete author citations. The error in this case was not in incompleteness or misspelling of the author''s name, but in the identity of the POSITION OF ERRORS IN AUTHOR NAMES incorrect author citations from all three libraries, where E is the position Table 2 shows that about half the incorrect author names had errors error consists in the addition of a letter to the end of the correct name, the distribution of spelling errors in relation to letter position closely DISTRIBUTION OF ERRORS AND LENGTH OF NAMES Probability of Errors in Recall of Author Names of a Given TYPE OF ERROR IN AUTHOR NAMES Errors which occurred in the spelling of the last names of authors were Single-Letter Replacement Errors 


id: 5246
title: The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report
author: Avram, Henriette D.
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5246.txt
cache: ./cache/5246.pdf
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summary:
  progress made from August-November 1969 in the following areas: training, selection of material to be converted, investigation of input devices, The RECON Pilot Project is an effort to analyze the problems of largescale conversion of retrospective catalog records through the actual conversion of approximately 85,000 non-current records. Card Division personnel, the selected titles for conversion must be reproduced, and the original file reconstituted, as quickly as possible. Project, which is based upon the availability of records in machine readable form. (referred to as a two-up print program) to cut printing time by providing a listing with records arranged in card number sequence (the order readable form should include the possibility of recording titles and holdings from other libraries. Index lists by card number all records in machine readable form in either 1. Library of Congress; RECON Working Task Force: Conversion of 


id: 5247
title: Comparisons of LC Proofslip and MARC Tape Arrival Dates at the University of Chicago Library
author: Payne, Charles T.; McGee, Robert S.
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5247.txt
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mime: application/pdf
summary:
  COMPARISONS OF LC PROOFSLIP AND MARC TAPE ARRIVAL The cumulative percentages of MARC record and proofslips matches matches for any week''s proofslips with successive MARC tapes. example, of the 340 proofslips received in Week 4, 71.2% matched MARC the 340 MARC proofslips received in Week 4 matched tape records received from Week 2 through Week 10, although the highest number of weeks, however, the highest number of proofslip matches was with tape In Table 3, the cumulative percentages of proofslip matches with successive MARC indexes indicate, for several of the weeks, more than a 90% match with tape records two weeks after proofslip arrivals. Table 4 shows that the percentage of matches for a MARC tape received in a given week with the proofslips received the same week or card numbers and compare proofslip lists and MARC indexes. Number of Proofslip Matches with MARC Indexes by Arrival Week 


id: 5248
title: Levels of Machine Readable Records
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5248.txt
cache: ./cache/5248.pdf
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mime: application/pdf
summary:
  desirable for national purposes: 1) the full MA.RC II format for distribution purposes; and 2) a less complex subset to be used by libraries reporting holdings to the National Union Catalog. purposes, considered levels of encoding detail of machine readable catalog records in relation to the conditions under which conversion might (tags, delimiters, subfield codes), and contents (data elements in simplify an individual record but does not simplify the content designators in the format because these elements are often present in other specification of levels really depended on the functions of machine readable catalog records from the standpoint of national use. Use of MARC Content Designators by 8 Library Systems or As noted above, the NUC function relates to the use of machine readable records to build a national union catalog. feasibility of defining a level of machine readable record for that purpose 2) In terms of national use, a machine readable record may function 

author:
  Avram, Henriette; De Gennaro, Richard; Pulsifer, Josephine S.; Rather, John C.; Rosenthal, Joseph A.; Veaner, Allen B.


id: 5249
title: On-Line Serials System at Laval University Library
author: de Varennes, Rosario
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5249.txt
cache: ./cache/5249.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  ON-LINE SERIALS SYSTEM AT LAVAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY physical locations-one of which is still in the Old City-and four auxiliary services: Documentation Center, Rare Books and Archives, Map LiOn-Line Serials Systemjde VARENNES 129 first on-line real-time program with the new serials system went into successful operation. The analyst-programmers at the Computing Center completed the program by various printing subprograms from the data on variable fields de l''Universite Laval, the Library''s subscription agent for serials, decided to utilize the file to initiate a computerized ordering process. at Laval University Library: Basic Programs (NAPS 00966) and "On-Line Serials System at Laval University Library: Printing Programs (NAPS 8. Varennes, Rosario de: "Computerized Serials Record at Laval University: A Progress Report", Canadian Library, 24 (September 1967), Prepared for the Members of the AUCC (Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada) Library Automation Committee (Quebec: Bibliotheque de l''Universite Laval, Analyse et Automatisation des Services: February 25, 


id: 5250
author: Atherton, Pauline; Miller, Karen B.
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5250.txt
cache: ./cache/5250.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  A project at Syracuse University utilizing MOLDS, a generalized computer-based interactive retrieval program, with a portion of the Library The first is the data base, which is a slightly modified subset of the Library of Congress MARC Pilot Project records ( 1). and maintain the data base, and the query language (also known generally as MOLDS) that a searcher uses to interact with his data stored The original plan was to have each file in the data base consist of as complete a set as possible of all MARC Pilot Project records to perform format conversion of the Library of Congress MARC I bibliographic file to satisfy MOLDS data base requirements. user-oriented facility for creating a MOLDS data base from MARC information. file in the data base (added to original MOLDS commands during this project) . All retrievals from MOLDS files are based on exact-match correspondences between input descriptors and data values as they occur in records.

title:
  LC/MARC on MOLDS; An Experiment in Computer-Based Interactive Bibliographic Storage, Search, Retrieval, and Processing


id: 5251
title: Book Reviews
date: 1970-06-01
txt: ./txt/5251.txt
cache: ./cache/5251.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  papers and discussions on data processing in libraries, in the hope of monograph, while the papers which report new developments or technical problems would have a better chance of reaching their proper useful information in the papers by Robert Hamilton, of the Illinois State the discussion period, Mackenzie suggests that libraries should use up to On the other hand, the chapter entitled "Some Problems and Potentials of Technology as Applied to Library Informational Services" is somewhat less than satisfying. Brown''s "Research Libraries and the New Technology," which originally Libraries at Large is indeed a resource book, and those papers containing original investigations and literature reviews are of such high L. Trinkner''s Basic Books For Junior College Libraries; Hester HoHman''s serve as a book selection guide for new or established junior and community college libraries. The goal is "to develop a long-range plan for strengthening information, communication, and exchange among the libraries of land-grant 

author:
  Voigt, Melvin J.; Tars, Arvo; Kilgour, Frederick G.; Csuri, Charles; Richey, James I.; de Gara, John; Oldfather, Margaret


id: 5254
title: Standardized Costs for Automated Library Systems
author: Jacob, Mary Ellen
date: 1970-09-01
txt: ./txt/5254.txt
cache: ./cache/5254.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  STANDARDIZED COSTS FOR AUTOMATED LIBRARY SYSTEMS Costs of automated library systems as currently given in published reports units for human work, and actual running times for equipment. accurately the actual running time that a given program should take, 2) actual design (both systems and individual programs); 6) actual data preparation and correction (includes new file; preparation and maintenance of existing files); Equipment costs are largely determined by the machine configuration such as the general type (i.e., tape drives, disc, printer, card reader, punch, Actual run times are a primary cost factor in any system and representative samples should be given. Normally such costs are considerably less than conversion from a non-machine-readable form. and for special forms an indication of the actual dollar cost as well. must include the cost of data preparation, computer run times, cost of operating costs, especially those of data preparation and computer run 


id: 5255
title: A Scatter Storage Scheme for Dictionary Lookups
author: Murray, D. M.
date: 1970-09-01
txt: ./txt/5255.txt
cache: ./cache/5255.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  input word by the length of the hash table and using the remainder. During lookup, the input word can then be compared with the character string to verify that the correct table entry has In the virtual scatter storage system described later, the hash table has a single dictionary entry, and slots containing a pointer to a collision chain A word being given, its hash address is computed and the tables searched to Suppose a hash table has H slots and that N words are to be entered in Let H, be the expected number of hash table slots virtual hash address is taken large enough, the expected number of collisions "'' In order to use a virtual hash scheme, the virtual table must be large enough to reduce the expected number of collisions to an acceptable level. tables are filled using these words and the resulting collision and storage 


id: 5256
title: History of Library Computerization
author: Kilgour, Frederick G.
date: 1970-09-01
txt: ./txt/5256.txt
cache: ./cache/5256.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  cataloging record on paper tape to produce a complete set of card images years later, Yale began to produce catalog cards in upperand lower-case The New England Library Information Network, NELINET, demonstrated in a pilot operation in 1968 a batch processing technique servicing University of Chicago Library brought into operation catalog card production with data being input remotely on terminals in the Library, and cards Book catalogs can increase availability of cataloging information to users while reducing library work, and the Monsanto from which catalog cards and accessions lists were also produced ( 32). Batch processed circulation systems periodically producing a listing of The Pennsylvania State University Library put a computerized acquisition system into operation in 1964 ( 46). Stanford University Libraries on-line acquisition system began operation of the 1965 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (Champaign, Illinois: Illini Union Bookstore, 1966), pp. or a Computer-Controlled Processing Record," Special Libraries, 55 


id: 5257
title: The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, November 1969 - April 1970
author: Avram, Henriette D.; Guiles, Kay D.; Maruyama, Lenore S.
date: 1970-09-01
txt: ./txt/5257.txt
cache: ./cache/5257.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  (The two practice tapes contain records converted before the implementation of the MARC Distribution Service to test the programs and input with the tags and other content designators assigned by the format recognition algorithms was given to the input typists to convert the records for One of the important aspects of the RECON Pilot Project is the conversion of 5000 records to machine readable form for research purposes. The RECON Report recommend ed using the Card Division record set Worksheet and the catalog card are filmed simultaneously; the resulting 8" x 10lh" hard copy is a RECON Input Worksheet immediately RECON records to obtain production and error rates and cost evaluation existing data bases in machine readable form for use in a national bibliographic service; and 4) study of problems involved in any future distribution of name and subject cross reference control files.


id: 5258
title: Book Reviews
author: Wilkinson, Billy R.; Evans, Glyn; Goldwyn, A. J.; Miniter, John J.; Nugent, William R.
date: 1970-09-01
txt: ./txt/5258.txt
cache: ./cache/5258.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  . Systematic Analysis of University Libraries is an exciting book, for it . Systematic Analysis of University Libraries is an exciting book, for it IS the first rep?rt describing a~plication of cost-benefit analysis to a library. IS the first rep?rt describing a~plication of cost-benefit analysis to a library. After presentation of the case studies, the author summarizes her conclusions on the buildings, book collections, services, staffs, and use by After presentation of the case studies, the author summarizes her conclusions on the buildings, book collections, services, staffs, and use by Report on T~e Total System Computer Program for Medical Libraries, by Report on T~e Total System Computer Program for Medical Libraries, by who are concerned with automation is the author''s discussion of -the conversion of a flow chart to· a decision table. who are concerned with automation is the author''s discussion of -the conversion of a flow chart to· a decision table.


id: 5259
title: An Algorithm for Variable-Length Proper-Name Compression
author: Dolby, James L.
date: 1970-12-01
txt: ./txt/5259.txt
cache: ./cache/5259.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  vowels only, to reduce the compressed form to four characters, deleting Ideally, it would be desirable to have a list of common errors in keyboarding names as a test basis for any proposed algorithms. As an alternative, one can study existing lists of personal-name equivalence classes to derive such algorithms and then test the algorithm against problems of truncating errors in name-compression algorithms, it is convenient to break the problem into two pieces. The algorithm splits 22 ( 4.9%) of the 451 equivalence classes given by 12) The algorithm fails to equate the various forms of McLaughlin 22) The algorithm fails to equate the various forms of the word Thompson (an -son problem.) marker is removed from all the five character codes, only six more overidentification errors are introduced. of the characters (A, E, I, 0, U, Y, H, W), and these markers are maintained as "padding" in the very short words, 18 errors of over-identification 


id: 5260
title: On-Line Acquisitions by LOLITA
author: Spigai, Frances G.; Mahan, Thomas
date: 1970-12-01
txt: ./txt/5260.txt
cache: ./cache/5260.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  format and content of records in the on-orde1'' file, and the on-line processing of these records (input, search, correction, output) using a cathode Many academic libraries, during shelflist conversion or input of acquisition data, use a series of tags for bibliographic information. LOLITA (Library On-Line Information and Text Access) is the automated acquisition system used by the Oregon State University Library. since it includes and will include three types of book request data: outstanding orders, desiderata of high priority, and in-process material), 2 ) generated and manually filed by purchase order number. main file is segmented into strings of records whose order numbers fall the records whose purchase order numbers are shown in Figure 5, there record, the first data element of the first page of input appears (Figure If one selects a valid order number representing a request record, the first page of that record, containing bibliographic information, is displayed. library purchase orders, accounting reports, vendor data, and records of 


id: 5261
title: Listings of Uncataloged Collections
author: Bellomy, Fred L.; Jaccarino, Lies N.
date: 1970-12-01
txt: ./txt/5261.txt
cache: ./cache/5261.pdf
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
summary:
  listings of bibliographic data about items in collections where full cataloging using computerized procedures to produce a variety of listings of bibliographic information about items in uncataloged collections. the UCSB Art Exhibition Catalogs Collection, but they were designed to such listings is the expedition with which a new, not-yet-cataloged, collection can be made accessible. item in the collection to be listed and transcribe the necessary bibliographic Another package, ARTINDX, is used to produce coordinate indexes by subject, agency, author and others. master listing of the full bibliographic records in accession number order. The computer program for the listings consists of several separate job The job step, ARTREAD, which reads the data cards into the machine, prepares a file in correct form for the sorting and printing steps. separate records are created, each with a different subject in the first field. Option 3 may be used when producing an author listing.


id: 5262
title: A MARC Based SDI Service
author: Bierman, Kenneth John; Blue, Betty Jean
date: 1970-12-01
txt: ./txt/5262.txt
cache: ./cache/5262.pdf
extension: .pdf
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  An operating SDI service utilizes the weekly MARC II tapes distributed The history, creation, operation, uses, advantages, disadvantages, cost and future plans for the SDI service are discussed, and flow charts (system and detail) and sample output given. work on the same principle and include two basic elements: subject interest profiles for the users and a machine readable file of indexed bibliographic records of current materials." ( 3) The Annual Review of Information Science, Volume 4, presents a summary of many different types of but more likely a State agency) are profiled in Dewey and/or L.C. classification numbers by a reference librarian from the Department. the Library School could use a listing of MARC records on each weekly The Dewey and LC classification numbers of each MARC record on a SCIENCE" for the library science list.); 3) classification number cards, records on the MARC tape being searched and the number of selected 


id: 5263
title: Book Reviews
author: Palmer, Foster M.; Hoadley, Irene Braden; Bierman, Kenneth J.; Salton, G.
date: 1970-12-01
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  One opens this report wondering whether circulation of reserve books The report will be valuable to anyone considering the problem of reserve books; its successor covering phase two Translations Journals; List of Periodicals Translated Cover-to-Cover, Abstracted Publications and Periodicals Containing Selected Articles, compiled by Mrs. A. The list includes both current and terminated periodicals (about 400 entries). Proceedings of the 1969 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, the purpose is to report actual experience in case history form of applications of data processing technology to areas of library operations. book is a source of information on how particular problems were handled as a programming language for library applications. beginning to describe on-line applications of data processing for libraries This book is a lucidly written text dealing primarily with manual indexing, and the manual construction of document profiles. of information about classification systems and their use for indexing Rather, the book deals with conventional indexing 


