Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 103 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4028 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 Library 26 MARC 16 system 13 University 9 book 7 key 6 library 5 file 5 ISAD 5 Automation 5 ALA 4 record 4 entry 4 Information 3 title 3 Standards 3 Serials 3 Committee 2 set 2 oclc 2 number 2 computer 2 character 2 card 2 SELDOM 2 SDI 2 RECON 2 NSDP 2 MONOCLE 2 MARBI 2 Kilgour 2 Congress 2 Board 2 AFR 1 vector 1 user 1 table 1 supplement 1 subscription 1 service 1 serial 1 search 1 ratio 1 project 1 prefix 1 picture 1 pattern 1 parameter 1 paper 1 order Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2241 system 1768 record 1745 library 1601 file 1399 number 1147 datum 1145 book 1095 title 983 time 957 card 880 program 869 entry 848 computer 819 information 794 cost 716 field 695 catalog 665 format 617 line 606 key 596 user 558 character 530 form 525 use 519 name 513 code 498 data 495 search 468 service 468 item 455 list 454 r 429 tion 429 problem 410 order 398 circulation 385 year 377 tape 377 i 374 input 369 machine 349 processing 348 type 347 author 342 index 333 table 327 paper 322 element 319 word 317 reference Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1700 Library 1087 MARC 1019 _ 660 Automation 576 University 482 Journal 478 Vol 434 LC 309 Information 271 Congress 241 National 236 Data 234 Mr. 233 IBM 230 ISAD 226 New 222 ALA 211 June 206 System 203 R 195 II 192 Committee 186 • 182 March 180 Science 170 September 169 American 164 Systems 164 State 161 Center 160 York 160 Technical 155 Catalog 154 Computer 150 Libraries 145 J 144 December 144 Book 136 Bibliographic 134 California 130 File 128 D. 127 Office 126 J. 126 Institute 126 Board 125 Title 124 Association 117 S 117 L. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 it 1125 i 430 they 402 we 250 he 193 them 85 you 77 itself 62 one 52 us 40 themselves 39 she 33 me 23 him 14 em 9 ourselves 7 himself 5 de- 4 in- 3 yourself 3 her 2 u 2 for20.dat 2 ''s 1 ~-\tr 1 washing- 1 ucjafr 1 u-1 1 tt 1 theirs 1 ta- 1 ours 1 omaa.ull 1 o 1 n 1 myself 1 mine 1 llo. 1 j 1 iii 1 i- 1 gf 1 fouty.15 1 ermes.dat 1 e<:of''iomiques 1 \vhat Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 15059 be 2510 have 1340 use 659 make 638 do 558 provide 529 include 471 require 415 follow 396 give 364 contain 324 produce 293 add 291 show 282 find 281 describe 273 take 273 print 253 base 246 develop 243 need 232 catalog 221 appear 217 select 203 indicate 199 write 195 see 194 create 190 determine 186 exist 178 work 176 represent 170 consider 167 become 166 set 164 publish 160 identify 157 call 153 process 153 allow 151 receive 149 know 148 hold 146 design 145 report 141 increase 141 enter 139 perform 139 list 138 prepare Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1560 not 725 other 660 more 631 only 556 also 513 first 475 such 442 new 419 bibliographic 372 most 338 available 325 large 315 well 311 same 301 then 300 many 297 possible 291 out 279 as 276 however 258 subject 254 up 241 several 240 different 234 library 223 high 217 very 216 present 215 key 210 readable 206 special 206 main 199 re- 197 total 194 various 193 thus 192 necessary 191 much 188 full 185 now 184 second 173 few 172 single 171 even 170 major 168 additional 166 general 160 in- 157 manual 156 great Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 156 most 76 least 62 good 39 Most 29 large 25 late 19 high 19 great 9 low 7 small 6 wide 6 early 6 bad 3 short 3 common 2 ter 2 simple 2 old 2 long 1 x4y 1 weak 1 strong 1 strange 1 rorr 1 ret 1 remote 1 new 1 near 1 lovely 1 hard 1 fast 1 farth 1 easy 1 close 1 clear 1 cheap 1 broad 1 autot 1 Least 1 GENETICS 1 600+t Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 216 most 28 least 6 well 1 shortest 1 long 1 highest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 system is not 7 book catalog subsystem 7 line catalog card 6 book is not 6 title added entry 5 data are available 5 data are not 5 library does not 5 title is not 4 book catalog production 4 entry is subject 4 format is not 4 information given here 4 information is available 4 line catalog production 4 system was not 3 book catalog entries 3 book is due 3 card is not 3 card is then 3 costs were not 3 entry is not 3 field is not 3 file is also 3 key is not 3 line cataloging pilot 3 record is present 3 system is easy 3 time is devoted 2 book catalog layout 2 book catalog page 2 book is ready 2 books is surprisingly 2 card catalog lookups 2 card is also 2 cards are then 2 catalogs are now 2 computer based circulation 2 computer produced cards 2 costs are difficult 2 costs using average 2 data are input 2 data base building 2 data base interchange 2 data base publishing 2 field is also 2 fields are not 2 file are also 2 file is then 2 file was faster Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 book is not already 1 book contains no problems 1 catalogs are no exception.2 1 characters have no meaning 1 costs were not available 1 costs were not readily 1 data base not currently 1 data contains no lower 1 entry is not subject 1 entry is not yet 1 field is not desirable 1 fields are not content 1 file be not only 1 files are not only 1 format is not completely 1 format were not sufficient 1 information is not available 1 key is not present 1 key is not sufficiently 1 libraries are not beds 1 libraries had not as 1 library contain no infor- 1 marc makes no provision 1 number do not necessarily 1 records were not actually 1 system are not yet 1 system is not able 1 system is not operational 1 system is not perfect 1 system is not production 1 system is not radically 1 system was no exception 1 system was no longer 1 system was not cost 1 system was not ready 1 system was not strikingly 1 system were no longer 1 systems was not high 1 time is not significantly 1 title does not necessarily 1 title is not apparent 1 title is not significant 1 title is not sufficiently 1 titles is not easy Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 15616 5759 11581 5738 9366 8925 8449 5739 8399 5760 7985 5785 7905 5772 7776 5776 7739 8953 7674 5731 7403 8950 7210 5734 7103 5735 6877 5585 6732 5786 6650 8960 6507 5578 6359 5743 6352 5589 6275 5591 5986 8949 5832 8926 5702 8927 5639 8928 5610 5594 5429 5580 5377 8945 5376 8951 5346 5599 5052 8952 5035 5765 4903 5773 4893 8935 4807 5581 4666 8962 4663 5737 4663 8933 4646 5579 4570 5590 4467 5741 4442 5764 4434 5726 4379 5588 4365 5587 4219 5742 4025 5582 4006 5720 3994 8932 3952 5584 3897 5724 3880 5784 3880 8959 3827 8937 3661 5593 3492 5595 3475 5782 3427 8961 3408 8934 3379 5767 3311 8963 3170 5761 3136 5768 3126 5783 3100 5725 3067 8958 2984 5778 2782 5732 2724 5583 2690 8948 2663 5777 2637 5762 2533 8936 2373 5598 2329 5727 2300 5736 2198 5775 2135 8946 2086 5779 2029 5774 1997 5763 1986 5722 1909 8954 1745 5766 1631 5596 1622 5733 1461 8957 1399 5592 1273 5723 1134 5728 1028 8929 939 5586 914 5740 763 8931 732 8955 729 5744 653 5787 621 8947 620 5769 546 5597 439 8924 267 5721 229 5730 141 8956 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 88.0 5731 88.0 5736 87.0 5743 87.0 8956 83.0 5766 82.0 5774 81.0 5785 81.0 8951 79.0 5581 79.0 5583 78.0 5760 78.0 8926 78.0 8935 77.0 5589 77.0 5732 77.0 5742 77.0 5775 77.0 5777 77.0 8933 75.0 5591 75.0 5765 74.0 5584 74.0 5776 73.0 5594 73.0 5734 73.0 5767 73.0 8950 72.0 5595 72.0 5596 72.0 5764 71.0 5723 71.0 8958 70.0 5733 70.0 5759 70.0 8960 69.0 5592 69.0 5597 69.0 5726 69.0 8934 69.0 8959 68.0 5580 68.0 8961 67.0 5585 67.0 5738 67.0 5784 66.0 5725 66.0 8932 65.0 5735 64.0 5588 64.0 5590 64.0 8949 63.0 5722 63.0 8927 63.0 8936 62.0 8952 61.0 5720 61.0 5778 61.0 5787 60.0 5727 60.0 5730 60.0 5740 59.0 5593 59.0 5773 59.0 8963 58.0 5578 58.0 5579 58.0 5587 58.0 5724 58.0 5739 57.0 5737 57.0 5769 57.0 5786 57.0 8928 56.0 5582 56.0 5761 56.0 5763 56.0 5779 56.0 8929 55.0 5783 55.0 8948 54.0 8954 53.0 5599 53.0 5744 53.0 5782 53.0 8937 53.0 8953 52.0 5598 52.0 5728 52.0 8931 52.0 8945 52.0 8946 51.0 5586 51.0 8924 51.0 8947 51.0 8962 50.0 5741 50.0 8955 49.0 5721 49.0 5762 49.0 5768 49.0 8957 47.0 5772 44.0 8925 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5578 1970 in the following areas: RECON production, format recognition, research titles, microfilming, and investigation of input devices. process unedited catalog records by examining data strings for certain of the manual editing process and, if successful, should represent a considerable savings in the cost of creating machine readable records. the two systems, time needed to proof format recognition records must provide test data for format recognition by stripping MARC records of card numbers, it was recognized that many problems concerning retrospective records would not be revealed in the conversion of relatively current records to machine readable form; 4) problems arising from shared cataloging records; and 5) problems arising when expanding the format recognition records the data should be input as it appears on the catalog card. bases, the total number of records in machine readable form reported by Format Recognition Process for MARC Records: A Logical Design. 5579 Personnel of an automation project is discussed in terms of talents needed The following observations are based upon experience at Stanford University over the past eight years in applying data processing to libraries, under an automated system, form and other output design, review of published literature and on-site analysis of selected efforts of a related nature; analysis of space requirements and equipment changes; staff training programs with manuals or computer aided instruction, system documentation The total effort is collaborative; the system is designed by and with the users of it (i.e., library staff), not for them, and In development of library automation or of any sophisticated data program of library automation results from on-campus development: that scarcity of particular talents and their importance to major library automation programs. Designing an on-line library system requires a person of project manager and staH librarians working with the team must be 5580 An on-line cataloging pilot project for two elementary schools is discussed. FASTER generalized software packo.ge, and usual cards/labels output. The need for data processing and library improvements resulted in Library Systems Analyst in mid-December 1969 that on-line cataloging in does input data on line, although ordering and cataloging functions are FASTER supports !SAM files only (as data sets) with the exception of record and assign a title number, one or more LT02''s to complete cataloging data, and an LC01 for building assignment. The unit card contains all cataloging information; the copy card shows a library''s holdings of a given title for card catalog and shell list are inserted in the item; the school librarian to set up the system, time for those tasks, costs, rate of data entry, quality the Head of Data Entry (terminal operators) was assigned for five months This included creating and keying data, printing cards and labels, 5581 FILE SIZE AND THE COST OF PROCESSING MARC RECORDS Analysis of cost data accumulated during two years'' experience in using MARC records for the production of catalog cards at run in which records were selected from the cumulative MARC file and average time and cost for each record read from the cumulative MARC and the average cost for reading a record from the cumulative MARC file, Cn is the cost of reading a record from the cumulative MARC file th1s IS the same cost as that obtained for each record read from the cumulative file in the select runs, it seems reasonable to use this figure as the On the other hand, a small or medium-sized public library acquiring the same number of titles would probably find a much larger percentage of its records on the MARC file but still not be able to use the 5582 The three chapters on statistical analysis of machine readable bibliographic data are chef-d''oeuvres of library literature. Library Use of Computers, An Introduction, edited by Gloria L. The book includes most aspects of library automation in a very generalized manner. head librarians of American college and university libraries earning $6,000 The wealth of information contained in this little volume can be useful computers in the public service, especially in library systems, will do well The Case for Faculty Status for Academic Librarians, edited by Lewis C. System Scope for Library Automation and Generalized Information Storage and Retrieval at Stanford University. one, but the joint development of two major bibliographic projects; BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations on a Timesharing System) and SPIRES (Stanford Physics Information Retrieval has edited this introduction to computers and library automation ( circulation and cataloguing). use in research and special libraries). 5583 PREDICTING THE NEED FOR MULTIPLE COPIES OF BOOKS An industrial inventory technique adapted to a university library''s computer based circulation system as one aid in identifying heavily used books the average length of time a title was on loan, i.e., the total number of days in which a title was in circulation divided by the number of times For example, if a book circulated three times during the academic year By providing an analysis of the present circulation profile of each book, the formula attempts to predict the number of copies of each title the Library would need to have in order to more "Copies Circulated" is the number of books with the same classification The column labelled "Projected Need" should, according to the calculations, indicate the number of copies of a title which could accommodate The first time the Borrower''s ID number appears on the book''s circulation 5584 ENTRY /TITLE COMPRESSION CODE ACCESS TO MACHINE An entry/title compression code is proposed which will fulfill the following access to MARC tapes; 2) entry/title access to the acquisitions and cataloguing in-process file; and 3) entry /title duplicate order edit within the card numbers were used to retrieve the corresponding MARC records from The LC card numbers, order entry, title, and, if present, d ate of publication were keypunched from the 254 requisition forms. The rules for title compression to form the six-character code were The two types of codes were generated from the 4,382 MARC records 4,382 MARC records, 6,828 cod es were produced for each of Code Type 1A Numb er of Duplicates vs Number of Source Records for Code Types Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 83 Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 83 Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 83 Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 83 Entry/Title Compression Code/NEWMAN and BUCHINSKI 83 5585 experience of the Booth Library On-Line Circulation System (BLOC). Booth Library On-Line Circulation (BLOC). Booth Library On-Line Circulation (BLOC). identification data of persons eligible to borrow books from Booth Library. The second one is the Booth Master File, containing identification information for each physical volume located in Booth Library. Creation of this file, which took one and one-half years, was done by converting the Booth Library shelf list into punched cards and then transferring book cards (those used in circulation transactions) from the master cards After processing in the catalog department, the new books go to the keypunch section, where a master card is class number being adequate for locating a book record from the Booth interfiling in call number sequence into a duplicate book card file. The other circulation inquiries include: name, student or employee master file, book display, book scan, and unclear. 5586 A recursive presentation of a communication format is discussed and a Recursive notation permits presentation of an interchange format in more general terms than heretofore published, and expands application possibilities. recording machine readable bibliographic data on magnetic tape, has led Standard for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape ( l ) in principle there is no difference in structure among the formats. In the existing systems for interchanging information on magnetic tape, the document is the object of The recursive notation of a communication format is presented below. a notation, using the American Standard for Bibliographic Information a certain universal structure for a communication format. the recursive presentation of notations in formats at the expense of an object Further, the recursive universal tag TG is defined as follows: Thus, the general notation of the format is expressed by 1), in which l. "USA Standard for a Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange 5587 However, many examples are included in the text to illustrate new commands and there are numerous review questions, exercises and problems Other graphic charts described the automated document retrieval system installed at the library of the Technical Institute of Delft, second editions of the MARC Manuals, enough changes have been made A Joint Project of the Industrial Relations Section, Sloan School of Management, MIT and the Inter-University Study of Labor Problems in Economic of the universe that can be viewed through the arch over which the particular chapter-title is inscribed, and relates it to the work of the library. The book should be useful to library schools as good coverage of a seldom Reader in Library Services and the Computer, edited by Louis Kaplan. Interlibrary Loan Involving Academic Libraries, by Sarah Katharine Thomson. Interlibrary Loan Involving Academic Libraries is a summary version 5588 areas: RECON production, foreign language editing test, format recognition, microfilming, input devices, and tasks assigned to the RECON Working machine readable form the catalog records for English language monographs cataloged since 1969. useful body of catalog records is being converted to machine readable form. accuracy of MARC/RECON editors in editing French and German language records. task of editing a MARC record involves being able to read the language record by format recognition ; the manual editing process, on the other Initial use of the format recognition programs is for input of approximately 16,000 RECON records in the 1968 card series. The world''s greatest love affairs.#London, Odhams, 1967 [i. For a full-scale retrospective conversion project at the Library of Congress, it is likely that records for input would be microfilmed from the catalog cards for a given year, would be microfilmed and then the appropriate records, i.e., English language monographs, German monographs, 5589 of complex records and the filing of non-alphabetical headings. Congress uses its own internal processing format and not MARC II. centers using MARC II records have designed their own processing formats missing, length of tags, of indicators, subfield codes, logical links between 2) A program ( EXPCREAT) that creates the files, computes the directory and puts the records at their places on the disks; modified; field 008 of the MARC format , put in fixed positions and having printed abridged alphabetical list giving author, title and this number MARC and BNB indicators for this field were chosen for communications purposes and are special field for family names (the use of this indicator in MARC II). In field llO the subfield codes of the communications format were not MONOCLE makes important changes in the title fields, following British 240 Collective filing title (complete works) filing of titles can be different in different libraries and for different books 5590 SCOPE : A COST ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMATED SERIALS of an investment decision, using the concept of net present value, a method net present value and a system life break-even requirement of seven years of any analysis of the cost of an automated system as an investment decision. Unexpected issues require that a card be prepared manually by the library staff. In order to issue claims on a current basis, the tape file is updated weekly A program is provided that lists the complete SCOPE file showing full A program is provided that lists all copies in the SCOPE file requiring A program is provided to prepare from the SCOPE file a listing of all The method of cost analysis used was the "net present value method." The net present value at the end of 1970 based on 10% cost of capital and E. L.: "Standardized Costs for Automated Library Systems," 5591 MAUERHOFF: Head, Tape Services, National Science Library Subscriptions to the Library of Congress'' MARC tapes number approximately sixty. With subscriptions to the Library of Congress'' MARC II tapes numbering that the Office of Technical Services ( OTS), Library, University of Saskatchewan, has been cooperating with the National Science Library ( NSL ), consisting of weighted Library of Congress subject headings and classification numbers. Library of Congress'' MARC II tapes to their present SDI service, especially a new directory, and writes the SELDOM MARC 11-like record out on tape. of the records on the tape precipitates a search of the profile words in core. When a prospective user (group) wishes to search a weekly MARC tape, 6. Studer, William J.: Computer-Based Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI ) Service for Faculty Using Librm·y of Congress MachineReadable Catalog ( MARC) Records. Dieneman, W.: "MARC Tapes in Trinity College Library," Program, 5592 FORTRAN books available. The book does bring the student to a level where he will be able to use This was a good choice for the level of book he the book as a reference should make a self-index of these particular areas of the book where the general forms and statements are given. good feature of the book. Films: A MARC Format; Specifications for Magnetic Tapes Containing This latest format issued by the MARC Development Office is similar obtained from Books: A MARC Format. Richard Coward, with his usual clarity and conciseness, explains the planning and format of U.K. MARC, in which he Two papers discuss the problems of actually using MARC: discusses the proposed use of MARC at A WRE Aldermaston, and also (The four American experimental uses of MARC reviewed by C. MARC and its uses constitute one of the most rapidly developing areas 5593 Technical Reference Library from a collection of miscellaneous documents related to only fifty computer systems to the present collection of approximately 10,000 hardware/software technical documents related to over USACSSEC Technical Reference Library, i.e., computer listings of available documents in various sequences, and development uf the cataloging The system, named ACCESS (Automated Catalog of Computer Equipment and Software Systems), used by the USACSSEC is characterized field, subject code (tab); and minor sort field, publication number. is, a document is listed by publication number, within subject code, within USACSSEC TECHNICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY CATALOG code, or tab, all manuals pertaining to this subject area are listed. 3) Listing by manufacturer name and publication number (Figure 3) : Sample Index Listing by Subject Code (Tab), Manufacturer Name i This listing also aids the manufacturer in updating his documents on file documents on over 200 computer systems from 70 manufacturers. would have access to the information in the USACSSEC Library. 5594 AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL NAMES FOR FILING Describes a method for preparing personal names already in machine readable form for processing by any standard computer sort program, determining filing order insofar as possible from normally available information This paper describes a method of computerized filing of personal names there are many possible complications in machine filing of library entries, While some early work embraced both personal names and titles, it below, and inserting one of four filing codes at the end of each word or mentioned in dealing with multiple-word forename entries and with surnames lacking forenames, the algorithm is well suited to names in the MARC I corpus included several names with hyphenated prefixes, and names in the MARC Pilot Project data, whenever the "doubt" signal was of doubtful names printed on the edit list was 631, or 1.1%. reduced considerably the number of names requiring hand-made forms. 5595 The second type of approach involves the replacement, by shorter nondata strings, of longer character strings known to exist with a high frequency in the data. of two data characters by single unused computer codes. most-frequently occurring digrams be replaced by single unused specialcharacter codes. are a total of 256 possible character codes (bytes ) . This requires a frequency count of all digrams appearing in the data, and character set is defined, and the digrams eligible for replacement are code for that character is moved to the output string. If the code represents a single character, point to next source byte the encoding time, the file was loaded from tape to disk. Currently the compression technique encodes only pairs of characters. to be en''coded, the algorithms for encoding and decoding become more If lower-case characters are used, a possible way to encode data using 5596 Use of a 3,3 key yields eight or fewer entries 99.0% of the time. A previous paper ( 1) established that truncated derived search keys are efficient in retrieval of entries from a name-title catalog. keys designed to retrieve bibliographic entries from magnetic tape files. The truncated search keys derived from these title-only entries consist number of random requests are put to the title-only file using a 3,3 search Search Key Title-Only Entries The two words from which the keys are derived in name-title entries are derived in the title-only entry are first order Markov strings, since The keys from name-title entries or fewer replies 99.08% of the time from a fil e of 132,808 name-title entries. keys derived from a first order Markov word string in a bibliographic Entries from a Name-Title Catalog by Use of Truncated Search Keys," R.: "Compression Word Coding Techniques for Information Retrieval," ] ournal of Library Automation 1 ( December 1968 ) , 5597 NAME-TITLE ENTRY RETRIEVAL FROM A MARC FILE entries retrieved per reply is essentially the same for both files. on retrieval of name-title entries from a technical processing system fil e The study cited above employed a file of 132,808 name-title entries The MARC file employed in the present study contains 121,588 name-title records bearing foreign titles, the Yale file has a significantly higher percentage of such titles, as would be expected for a large university library. The test employed the 3,3 search key to make possible comparison with previous the Yale and the MARC files. Probability of Number of Entries Per Reply Using 3,3, Search Key The same result was expected for the MARC file that had been obtained different results were the existence of errors in the Yale file, a significant entries from a large bibliographic file ( 1) by use of a truncated 3,3 search 5598 system, TRIPS accepts paper tape input describing network transactions In July 1970 a joint program was initiated to develop a statistical reporting system for the TALON document delivery network. the effort view the statistical reporting system as a vital first step in providing TALON administrators with a comprehensive network management system, designated as TRIPS (TALON Reporting and Information Processing Systems), and its relation to NEMIS is discussed in the following There were two considerations for requirements for a network management information service ( NEMIS ) for TALON: 1) In what environment Eventual need for a network management information system ( NEMIS) being recognized, the TALON reporting and information processing system (TRIPS) was designed as the first A transaction log, maintained by each regional library and TALON headquarters, constitutes the basic input to TRIPS. TRIPS output consists of a report for each library in the network and 5599 and Becker, Handbook of Data Processing for Libraries, Wiley, 1970 and on page vii, the purpose "is to provide a perspective of the library functions that have been or might be mechanized or automated, an outline of citing a number of library automation projects mostly dating from the Immediately following are several excellent chapters describing traditional library activities (e.g., acquisition, cataloging, reference,. a network which will permit any scientific or technical researcher, in government, industry, or university, to access the total information resources to the material by 1) name of author, cooperative project or library now appears revised, under a new title, in the publisher''s more recent Information Sciences Series. The entries include the following types of services and facilities: Information Centers, Computerized Systems and Services, Network and Cooperative Programs, Data Banks, Documentation Centers, Information INFORMATION SCIENCE, with many entries, also has a "see also LIBRARY AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA PROCESSING" 5720 Features of the system include selfservice book charge, remote terminal inquiry and update, and automatic Although the Northwestern University library had given some consideration to the adoption of data processing techniques over a period of many charge/ discharge operation using the IBM 1030 series of terminals. Inquiry requests use the general-purpose file maintenance system originally developed for technical services. This gives an operator at the circulation desk the capability to query the file about the status of any book, Thus the file includes entries for books which have been placed on reserve, loaned to of the terminal operator, who will always request that the book record processed by the 1030 terminals are entered in the transaction file only records which were placed in the transaction file as a result of a save real-time program for both circulation and the part of technical services The following information is included in each circulation file record: 5721 The Editorial Board of the Journal of Library Automation is pleased to Kilgour who, with the able assistance of his assistant editor, Eleanor M. first years of Journal publication, Mr. Kilgour was also designing and implementing the complex system which is the Ohio College Library Center, Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association As library automation moves further into the seventies, the context of Ever-increasing fisca l pressures have required economic justification for every alteration of traditional practice. we hope that emphasis will be placed on reviews of experience, retrospective evaluations of operation rather than optimistic projections made in the first bright mornings of system design. operational systems by experience and the heavy hand of time. It is our further hope that the ] ournal will receive more reports from public and school libraries which indicate an increasing dedication, in automation explications, to the social and educational goals of those institutions. 5722 A scheme is suggested for the physical arrangement of the contents of a library, in which the library as well as the books are considered as threedimensional entities, and classification is revised to refle ct this concept. book and the characteristics of library architecture. to the extreme: "The failure of our present systems of book classification The book, then, as a physical unit, and irrespective of the dimensions of its content, must be forced into a monodimensional system the utility of traditional book classifications as instruments for the effective impossible to build a book of less than three dimensions! exists for unmythical libraries-three dimensions are essential. set of books we can accomplish a linear mapping by both subject and a category scheme for the Y dimension. change the subject classification scheme. be used for frequency, leaving two dimensions in which to group books One difficulty that will be encountered is the classification of books 5723 A TRUNCATED SEARCH KEY TITLE INDEX An experiment showing that 3, 1, 1, 1 search keys derived from titles are title index to entries in the Ohio College Library Center''s on-line shared Several large libraries participating in the center requested a title index because experience in those libraries had shown that A previous paper has shown that truncated three-letter search keys derived from the first two words of a title are less specific than authortitle keys ( 1). Other investigations into computerized, derived-key title indexes include file contains title-only and name-title entries, and keys were derived from Table 1 contains the maximum number of entries in 99 percent of replies. 1. Maximum Number of Entries in 99 Percent of Replies Title Index Entries specific to operate efficiently as a title index in a large file. key is sufficiently specific to operate efficiently as a title index to a 5724 Presently consisting of five subsystems, CAIN utilizes the concept of controlled authority files to facilitate users providing input data are the New Book Section, Cataloging, Indexing, and Agricultural Economics. For convenience in discussion, the system will be described by its subsystems: data gathering, edit and update, publication, search and controlled authorities. The hardware prescribed for this subsystem is not included as a requirement of CAIN inasmuch as transactions can be entered on 80-column cards if desired. Data elements specified as required within each record are The generated terms are then processed against the controlled authority file. generate posting records for the subject authority file. This subsystem permits identification and retrieval of records in CAIN format based on search statements as applied to almost every data element term inverted file carrying the identification number of each record using CAIN data records. During a normal CAIN data run, each call number or subject term in 5725 Friden Equipment, ( 3) and the current Automated Library Systems ( ALS ) the numbers of reserved books and delinquent readers to facilitate immediate identification at the point of issue. have been made to develop on-line circulation systems (see Figure 2). In order to control the circulation system in an on-line manner, the library expects there to be at least ten hours on-line working available discovered, this number of hours of on-line working is very rarely available at present when computer facilities are being shared with many In order to answer queries and to control the circulation in a completely on-line manner the dedicated disk must be large enough to hold to operate a hybrid system, the library would need two periods of on-line Last year at the University of Lancaster the average cost per issue was circulation in a highly cost-effective manner compared with on-line working. Hamilton "The Illinois State Library "On-Line" Circulation 5726 it wherever possible." ( 1) Since SELDOM operates in a fairly new field, SDI purpose of the study was to elicit user reaction to SELDOM, their evalMaterial appearing in this paper was originally presented at the third 23.6 percent of the users indicated that in most cases items of interest 63.5 percent of the users indicate that SELDOM information is used A recent development at the Library of Congress has definite implications for the future of SELDOM and any other MARC-based SDI programs. 1. An SDI service based on MARC can be helpful in building a balanced library collection depending on the efforts of faculty and/ or bibSelective Dissemination of MARC /BUHR 45 2. Comments, especially from users in the social sciences and humanities, indicate that an SDI system for new monographs has greater pertinence expanded MARC file on which future SDI service would be based, do 5727 This article describes the need for user-oriented serial lists and the development of such a list in the California Institute of Technology library. the divisional collections in chemistry, biology, mathematics, physics, engineering, and humanities, the libraries at the California Institute of Technology were largely autonomous, reflecting the immediate needs of each efforts would require a published list of serials and journals ( 1). serves as an obstruction to determining the library holdings, since referScientific Serial Lists/ROTH 53 Abbreviation Scientific form of title Union List entry meanings in scientific literature and conversation because of the well-developed title entries and abbreviations given in Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, and the World List of Scientific Periodicals. main entry, holdings, and divisional library location, with additional data The unit serials record consists of the title, holdings, divisional library, in a Serials List Made by Computer," Journal of the American Society 5728 practice in determining entries and doing descriptive cataloging. This reviewer believes that a more exact title would be "Descriptive Cataloging also includes some of the basic rules for determining entries and headings in entries and headings; and facsimile title pages for student practice. descriptive cataloging and the determination of main and added entries, in beginning cataloging courses in American library schools. This is the final report of the Colorado Academic Libraries Book Processing Center ( CALBPC) two-part study investigating centralized processing. Centralized Book Processing, Scarecrow, 1969, was basically a feasibility study, whereas this final report describes the beginning six months of operations that tested the Phase I recommendations. by participating in the center''s centralized processing, and the cost of processing the average book was reduced from $3.10 to $2.63. on books processed by the center but that cost or local error correction Those libraries participating in approval programs had received no benefit 5730 At the January 1973 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, the Board of Directors of the Information Science and Automation Division appointed me to the position of Editor of the Journal of Library Secretary of both the Information Science and Automation Division and the American Library Trustees Association, for adding yet another hat while he prepared a substantial portion of this June 1972 issue of JOLA. As incoming editor, I also wish to describe briefly to the subscribers and regular readers of JOLA the situation of the journal and my plans for its immediate future. behind schedule. By taxing the capacity of the ALA staff, JOLA should return to its normal schedule within a year. I will appreciate greatly the support of ISAD members, JOLA readers, will be made in the near future, as all efforts will be turned toward bringing the journal up to scheduJe. Martin, editor 5731 Orange County Public Library''s BIBLIOS (Book Inventory Building hand, to create book card and pocket sets (Figure 5 ), book catalog entries, entry in the book catalog, the catalog supplement, the cumulative on-order mechanically created, the key number continues to document the title for years of operation of Orange County''s libraries, 92 percent of all titles in In May 1971, the first edition of BIBLIOS book catalog was released for The module of BIBLIOS producing the book catalog and cumulative BIBLIOS book catalog subsystem. If a title listed in the book catalog has inventory, the key, branch BIBLIOS development costs (including full conversion and publication of first book catalog). library to order a book (one title). Typical processing costs for one title in Orange County Public Library''s BIBLIOS system. Cost of entry from initial input to display in book catalog (including Convelope; excluding MARC source: $2.77). 5732 The Health Sciences Library shares the facilities provided by the Department of Computer Services on campus. sequenced assemblage of ATS documents consisting of data and proComputer Assisted Circulation Control/MILLER 89 The Health Sciences Library Circulation System ( HSCCIRC) provides: 6. Notices to users having books requested by other patrons. 7. Hold shelf notices alerting library personnel to those books which 8. Book availability notices to users who have made "save" requests. This information on book usage and borrowing patterns assists in library Each notice lists the call number and due date for overdue books currently Query File contains one line of information relating to the charge. circulation file from the IBM 2741 terminal during the hours of operation of Access to the Query File is either by call number of the book or circulation records are now updated five times per week and notices are charging books and in providing information on this status. 5733 Systems planners are hard pressed to accurately predict the access characteristics of search keys on large on-line bibliographic files when so little is The purposes of this study are ( 1 ) to determine the comparative effectiveness of the 4,5 and 3,3 search keys, ( 2) to compare two predictive For comparative purposes, a second search key file was created and This is a relatively easy survey to conduct since the output list of matching records for any particular key entry is headed with the exact number the file are random with respect to search key, it is predicted that 99.5 In this table, Model2 predicts that only 75.7 percent of requests will return random requests by search key. for assumed random key requests and do not reflect actual usage of the file. The 4,5 search key is more efficient for retrieval of 10 or fewer records 5734 The book cards contain only the call number and location code. entered into the file as a "missing book." The circulation section has found that entering missing books into the file as soon as possible saves them time, When a user is informed that a book is in the circulation file, he may ask simple steps: ( 1) insert the user badge, ( 2) insert the book card, and ( 3) the terminal will not accept badges or book cards unless they are inserted When a book is charged to the Reserve Room, the identification number After charging, the punched book card is removed and held until the charge, book cards arc punched and filed in this file to await the return of staff member in charge of lost and missing books. Also keypunched at this time is a regular book card, which is filed in the User inserts identification badge and punched book card in 5735 machine-generated purchase orders, multiple order cards, budget statements, ovet·due notices to vendors, and many cataloging by-products. time the library decided to initiate automation planning (December 1970), The automation of library acquisitions at Parkland is notable for several The library staff concluded that acquisitions had first priority for automation. acquisitions, a list was prepared of the criteria the library staff would expect This time estimate was prepared with the goal of automating acquisitions beginning with the fiscal year 1972 (i.e., July 1972). Time estimate for automation of acquisitions at Parkland College One of the most significant parts of the development of Parkland''s automated library acquisitions system is the exhaustive documentation provided by detailed written specifications for each program in the system. in the Parkland College Library Acquisition Series is presented in the this point that Parkland has automated many library routines very inexpensively, although specific cost figures remain to be determined. 5736 approx imately 700 libraries were using the system, and about 100,000 binding patterns were in the data file . As the system was developed, a library''s binding pattern data were pattern record for the libraries'' files, and the bindery maintains the resultant data bank of pattern records as the library notifies it of additions, changes, The system revolves around four forms: the binding pattern index card, library as its pattern record for each set of each periodical bound by the The data given on the card are essentially the same as those maintained by most libraries in their manual pattern £les, except that more detail Binding pattern index card. a set are to be bound, the library clerk provides the variable information for the first volume by using the single binding slip, and the variable data for The binding historical record (Figure 3) is a form provided for the use 5737 component of his education in the fields of library automation and information retrieval. refer exclusively to text processing, library automation , and information includes a list of "automated libraries" that was published before and is Resulting in a Recommended Canadian MARC Format for Monographs that the National Library of Canada assume the responsibility for developing a distinctive Canadian MARC format. • The National Library of Canada adopt the PRECIS (Preserved Context Index System) developed for BNB for the purpose of adding subject data to MARC records for Canadian publications in the form Library of Congress format for serials. For serials, it was the intention of the Task Group to maintain compatibility with the Canadian MARC format for monographs. necessary to study the proposed formats for serials issued by the Library The proposed Canadian MARC format for serials has been based on the discussion of the use of terminals to catalog books, it footnotes ''the library'' 5738 number of reports describing off-line catalog card production systems, including systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology ( 2), the New An off-line catalog card production system based on a file of MARC II cards at a lower cost than manual methods in OCLC member libraries. Early activation of off-line catalog card production did reduce costs and Next, the OCLC staff published a description of catalog card production and procedures for participation ( 6). OCLC off-line catalog card production programs were written in assembler language and higher level languages. The number of terminals needed by a member library for shared cataloging was calculated on the assumption that six titles could be processed per When a bibliographic record is used for catalog card production, an The catalog card production programs operate off-line, and the first Library of Congress Card Number Index Record. the card images by institution, library, catalog, and by entry or call number 5739 "absence file" to a set of records for only those items that have been charged 2) an item file of bibliographic records for all library volumes or titles, or for file of records for circulating items, if transaction data for them are more design of data management capabilities are developed explicitly for circulation control, to the exclusion of other library data processing requirements. The second approach is to create a circulation system that is operationally independent of other library data processing activities, but designed It is possible, in systems with user and item files, to access records by In most absence systems user identification number and full item data universe of items by the library''s acquisitions, cataloging, circulation control, In on-line circulation systems built around an absence file, the data The files of current item systems hold less-than-full bibliographic records: Bell Laboratories library utilizes two basic fixed length 5740 The Proceedings of the International Conference on Training for Information Work, Rome, Italy , 15th-19th November 1971, edited by Georgette The great majority of papers in these Rome Proceedings fall basically under category b), i.e.-''how we done it good,'' and The concern for information science education is indeed worldwide; however, if the presented papers are any measure, such education is in big The conceptions of what information science education is all about differ information science education. The Proceedings offer a fascinating picture of information science education by countries and by various facets. Zunde, "Science and Information: Some Implications for the Education of Scientists;" (USA) Rittel, "An Educational System for the Information Sciences." (Germany) international overview not only of information science education but also of information science itself, including implicitly the problems the field The task of the book is to guide the reader in the use of the LFP (Library 5741 Group on Content Designators was formed to attempt to resolve the differences in the content designators assigned by national agencies to their submitted to the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 46, Subcommittee 4, Working Group on Content Designators. Prior to any attempt to standardize the content designators for the international exchange of bibliographic data in machine-readable form, it is bibliographic data in machine-readable form; 2) the scope of concern for the have emphasized the importance of the international exchange of bibliographic data in machine-readable form. 2. The content designators (tags, indicators, and data element identifiers 3. Lack of agreement on organization of data content in machinereadable records in different bibliographic communities. examines the use of the data element identifiers in the different national lack of an international cataloging code; 2) the dissimilarities in the products of various agencies created by the different functions performed by bibliographic record, i.e., content data only. 5742 primarily of the LC card number and letter codes for the libraries holding The Numerical Register of Books in Louisiana Libraries, as the catalog is now entitled, is the second step toward c. generate records of unique titles in combinations of libraries owning the total number of books held in common by Libraries A and B is 127, the number of books held in common by them and no other library is only 52. Column 2 is the total number of titles counted in all combinations. is the average number of unique titles contributed by each library. is the average number held by any combination of 2 libraries, and 6.89 Summary of Titles Held in Common by Unique Combinations of Libraries (Spring 1971 tabulation) 90,302 (column 3, table 3) and the number of titles held by one library library has many titles without LC numbers. 5743 COMPUTER-BASED SUBJECT AUTHORITY FILES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARIES associated listings are called the Subject Authority File (SAF) and the has become necessary for academic or research libraries to maintain authority files of various kinds, such as author name, subject, series. the relationship of subject authority files to both the present manual cataloging system and to a planned mechanized system employing the MARC The Subject Authority File ( SAF) contains all topical subject heading terms and their subdivisions down to nine Authority File ( GAF) contains topical headings found in the SAF, with Mount and Kollin ( 4) described the use of the computer in the updating and revision of the subject heading list for Applied Science and The SAF and GAF files comprised 59 catalog card drawers of information (about 115,000 lines of typed data). The data preparation was done by the Catalog Division''s subject authority the SAF and GAF data files. Subject Authority File (SAF) Supplement List 5744 Proceedings of the Conference on Interlibrary Communications and Information Networks, edited by Joseph Becker, sponsored by the American To see how rapidly the field of library networking and communications has moved in recent times, one need only try to review a conference on the The assumptions on which the conference was based were the traditional all individuals to use these networks, it was recommended that fee-forservice prices should be kept low through subventions of the telecommunications costs by libraries and information centers. and methods need to be learned, both education and research in the field Since the basic components of networks of libraries and information centers was conceived as being: problems, a whole section on network technology was included. if public money is to be provided; and more research on the best networking then-new National Commission on Libraries and Information Science was might be said, this was the thread binding all sections of the conference 5759 condensed entries and contains the ability to pmduce cumulation/ supplement book catalogs in installments tL''ithout loss of control of the crossreferencing structure. The utility of a book form union catalog has already been demonstrated by the experience of the M~d-Manhattan Libraries in New York. Take, for example, the LC established heading Elections-New York (City); NYPL automatically causes all by the cataloger in order to provide the additional entry point is prevented; in addition, the bibliographic record remains rigorously MARC-compatible. Automatic control of cross-references, dual entries, and the en masse alteration of classification are facilitated by the authority subsystem together with the correlative and reorganizational capabilities of the computer. In addition, information is provided to the book catalog subsystem regarding changes in the authority file (alteration of established forms, change to a filing form, posting or removal of a cross-reference or dual entry, change of categorization, or the complete transfer of all cataloging 5760 A description is given of the file organization and design of an on-line catalog suitable jo1· automation of a library of one million books. of virtual hash addressing allows rapid search of the indexes to the catalog file. details normally present in a manual catalog, and the file should be organized to allow searches to be made with respect to title words, authors, and The files described in the present paper include ones stored in compressed form and organized for rapid access. organized with respect to search keys such as title words, subject terms, author names, and call numbers. The entry placed in the content section includes the minor M ( K) and a dictionary pointer to where the key is placed in the dictionary file as well as a 2-16• Consequently, if Step 9 is also omitted the number of disk accesses required to find the index entry corresponding to a search key is approximately l.Ol. 5761 REPORT OF NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. the !SAD Objectives Committee report is received in June. chairman, provided an interim report of the committee. It was moved by Paul Fasana that the ISAD Board recommend to the ALA Council that it (ALA) develop some policy expressing its membership''s attitude toward the privacy of machine-readable force would report back to the Board through the committee. chairman, submitted a written 18-month report of the committee (Exhibit Miss Kenney announced that she was resigning as chairman of the committee and that no present member was available to assume the chairmanship. ALA Headquarters to handle the burden of the work; ( 3) policy be established concerning commercial groups using ISAD programs for a marketing channel, particularly products of use to libraries; ( 4) institutes or seminars be regionalized in the U.S. and Canada; and ( 5) liaison efforts be 5762 comments on lOLA articles, and pertinent information about technical developments will hopefully assume a larger percentage of the allotted pages for Technical Communications. the library service channel to see the information requested over the telephone. Pan Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) is a demonstration project in which April 1971, ground terminals constructed at the university were successfully testoperated and utilized between Hawaii which have terminals have their own autonomous staff and organization which operate the equipment and develop educational uses of the system. Medicine awarded the University of Hawaii a contract for a study of medical networking in the Pacific, incorporating demonstrations of library and professional exchanges. PEACESAT Project, Program in Communication, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine to provide support during the development of a low cost, stand Grosch of the University Libraries Systems Division as project director and the 5763 Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Libraries, 1972. recognized need of the libraries it was proposing to serve) and emphasizes the importance of careful planning. specifically written for librarians and library students! glossary, treats the subjects of library use this book will be as useful in our library Truly an excellent introduction to computers and systems analysis for librarians! include printed catalogs, indexes, and authority lists. is for controlling loans of library books, The survey covers a wide range of computer-based article title key word indexes, approaches to key word indexing. this survey, at least three major libraries have begun publication of key word indexes to serial titles, a type of index with It is difficult to say what makes a key word index applicable to indexes of article titles in (Berkeley) library found "College," "University," "Company" and "Papers" to be "Key word indexing" may not be Accountability: Systems Planning in Education. 5764 costs for either the manual or automated system based on certain circulation loads. effectiveness comparison with a similar manual operation can provide information on effectiveness of automated circulation systems in general as well If total hours of staff assigned to circulation are used as the basic labor costs, their time at other library functions are included and would provide erroneous data. The last activity, computer operations, was subdivided into three parts: computer charges, library equipment rental costs, systems it is impossible to split our computer cost for each circulation subfunction because we use integrated data bases which are charged as a Mtmthly totals were averaged for each activity''s transaction time, number As has been shown by the example of its use at WSU, the models provide for two functions: cost comparison of automated and manual circulation systems at the same levels of book circulation, and prediction of cost Model costs at 590 circulation 5765 operation was as follows: to borrow a book, the patron presented a laminated plastic card which had his borrower number and borrower class t:''lined a keypunched card holding the book''s class number and brief author the information from the book card, the patron''s borrower number, and the of all material on loan, and fine and overdue notices for dispatch to patrons. Such data were available under batch processing for the general collection, but not for the reserve collection, which, with its loan periods the on-line Loan Master File for the required class number. on loan, a message appeared on the screen giving the class number, borrower number, due date, and whether a hold had been placed on the book. access to a Loan Master File which contained one 100-byte record per book Phase II was to see the on-line processing of loans and returns, the master Equipment Costs (1971) IBM vs Colomdo, Phase I and Off-Line 5766 This investigation shows that search keys derived from personal author main entry, five characters of title) key tl1at when the basis of the search investigation into retrieval efficiency of search keys derived from corporate Table 2 records distinctness arranged by number of characters per key. In this figure, different types of lines connect points representing key structures that contain an equal number of characters. time a 4,2,1 key will retrieve five or fewer names from a file of 167,745 distinctness aJ}d the likelihood of retrieving a certain number of names 90, Degree of Distinctness in Percent for Different Key Structures Distinctness by Number of Characters Per Key truncated search keys derived from personal names that ate sufficiently G. Kilgour, "A Truncated Search Key Title Index," Journal of L. Landgraf, "Title-Only Entries Retrieved by Use of Truncated Search Keys," Journal of Library Automation Retrieved by Use of Derived Truncated Search Keys," ]oumal of Library Automation in press. 5767 to explain his observation; it is suggested that the gross features of the behavior are statistical in nature and not properties of specific search keys. of items having a given search key value will vary. the number of requests to use in a test of search key behavior in a given For a particular collection, letS denote the set of search key values fraction of the requests with search key values in S; if we do so, we will items arrive, they are randomly distributed among the search key values Nfpg(p)dp = Np as the expected number of items retrieved by a random request; since this is proportional toN, doubling the size of the collection will, in fact estimating f(p): if there ares search key values that retrieve n items as search key values are concerned, a particular library''s collection can be "Title-Only Entries Retrieved by Use of Truncated Search Key," Journal of Library 5768 been granted a U.S. patent for an improved method of recording and reproducing information from microfilm. University-wide Library Automation Program (ULAP). university-wide Institute of Library Research ( ILR) . units is research in support of the university''s educational function, the responsibility for development and operation of materials contained in libraries on the university''s thirty-four state campuses. Working in cooperation with State University librarians, Chancellor Boyer has announced the formation o£ a committee of Collectively, the libraries at the university''s state campuses comprise one of the Eight United States information specialists from government, universities, professional societies, and private industry Burchinal, head, Office of Science Information Service, National Science F oundation, also spent ten days in the Soviet Institute of Technology; Bart Holm, manager, Systems Development Section, Information Services Division, E. through the National Technical Information Service. Now available from the American Library Association''s Information Science Memphis Public Library and Information Center 5769 Bibliothekspraxis (Library Practice), V erlag Dokumentation has published a short monograph on library automation by Paul Niewalda has written an introductory text, in German, condensing the Yet Niewalda''s frequent references to the ·European, particularly the German, library about library automation in general, and developments in the field of library automation. DictionanJ of Library Science, Information The Basic Table, a numbered list of entries for 5,439 English language words and body of the Dictionary of Library Science, Each entry consists ·Of a serial number, the English for volume as a book trade or library term and as an information processing term. English synonyms are also frequently given; in general these are terms In such cases entry is under the synonym entries in which the index term is cited. cessing Glossary and the American National Standard Vocabulary for Information sources of information processing terms. volume can ·provide much useful information. 5772 and application of electronic data processing techniques and the use of automated systems in all areas of library work." Before this date, there was no membership unit within ALA with the sole responsibility for library automation, so smaller libraries unable to afford competent staff members with assigned responsibility in this area; and provision of a forum for discussion of library automation problems and experiences, and other means of communicating information If the key word in acquisitions is "selectivity," the corresponding term in cataloging is "access." Some of the earliest automation efforts in libraries were directed to the production of machine-readable catalogs and associated programs in particular, as well as library automation management, information science education, micrographic and telecommunications technologies. The Committee therefore recommends that a program of seminars and institutes be continued and broadened by the division during the next five 5773 Mrs. Martin stated that cooperation in the publications area might be relatively easy for ASIS, but for ALA it might be another matter. Mr. Fasana suggested that the three chairmen of the ISAD ad hoc committees (Research Topics, Seminar and Institute Topics, and Objectives) Mr. Stephen Salmon, chairman, reported that his Committee on Objectives would meet that when the full Objectives Committee met with representatives of the Information Technology Discussion Group, there did seem to be a community of effort-the "chemistry" seemed to be there, and it did seem to work Technology Discussion Group being housed in ISAD as a committee. that the Board give him the authority to appoint committee members without approval of each individual as the ISAD Bylaws stated. raised at the first session of the ISAD Board meeting regarding the Information Technology Discussion Group: ( 1) How such a group should fit 5774 of a search key to select distinct corporate entry rec01''ds is discussed. corporate author index to entries in a large file of catalog records at the A search key composed of the first five or four characters of the surname and the first or first and second initials makes possible efficient retrievaP However, the situation is different in the case of corporate entries Maximum Frequency Total Records Percent of Distinct Keys of Entries allowable occurrences of any key in the file, the average number of entries where ~ i ft is the number of entries in the file whose derived keys have Table 3 gives the probability of number of entries per reply for the index file consisting of 50,854 (out of a total of 68,169) records with the Probability of Number of Entries Per Reply for an Index File Entries Retrieved by the Use of Truncated Search Keys," Journal of Library Automation 4:207-10 (Dec. 1971). 5775 A quarterly keyword index to campus grant projects is provided by the The index is printed in KWOC format, using the chief investigator''s name as the key to a section of project summaries. Thus the library''s chief administrator received an immediate, if unexpected, response to her statement of campus need for subject access to a suggestion for a three-department cooperative project between the library, The original proposal for a library index to the C&G file was production was added to list project summaries indexed by campus department name were divided between a main routine coded by library staff, an indexing The data base of local grant information is maintained by a campus administrative department and lent to the library for index extraction. The resulting index records remain completely independent of the C&G update system except for the use of campus "granting agency" codes added to 5776 This paper describes development of a MARC serials format union catalog 1,566 text pages produced through photocomposition in News Gothic typefont using the full MARC character set. of the Minnesota Union List of Serials (MULS), the data base of which page, MULS is a full bibliographic union serials catalog. libraries in the state had developed their own serials lists, and regional data base with the following non-University of Minnesota holdings: Library is now also being included in the body of the MULS data base. Many entry problems resulted, because variant cataloging approaches were used in many of these libraries. The bid required the vendor to program from our MARC format master file tape an input tape for the photocomposer which would produce the specified format, using the MARC character set in a font to be chosen from sample text pages. data base to serve Minnesota''s libraries. 5777 The 360/ Assembler programs written by the Library Systems Office include a number of innovations. Listings are main-entry, alphabetic under key word groups, with brief holdings, from Systems Office, Main Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. sampling analysis of the percentage of total GO step time used by each program of table search statements for the University of California, San Francisco Library this library, and, indeed, it was a timely listings as well as the catalog of each library from initial time of participation (some libraries are retrospectively converting their shelflists and one has completed the task), and catalog cards in :final form alphabetized for filing in specific charge if the cataloging library input the The estimated cost for the present year for system use by an Ohio library is $2.02 per record used for the first time and not input by the library; this fe e 5778 These three developments are: ( 1) the MARC Serials Distribution Service ( MARC-S); ( 2) the International Standard Bibliographic Description The NSDP is the United States national center of UNISIST'' s International Serials Data System ( ISDS), which has sole responsibility for controlling the assignment of the International Standard Serial Number Besides its ISDS responsibility, NSDP has as a prime objective the provision of a data base of serial publications for the three national libraries However, NSDP has added "Author Entries" as an essential national data element, along with a means of indicating the AACR A study of the differences in practice between LC and NSDP with respect to creating new records for change of title is attached. correspond with NSDP''s practice, based on ISDS guidelines, in assigning new key titles. • • NSDP would append main entry to the new key title in this instance. 5779 A regionally organized program for serials bibliography is proposed because of the large volume of complex data needing control and the many in a MARC serials record for cataloging purposes and when further coupled with explicit holdings information needed for regional networks, the libraries would interface to their Regional Serials Data Center, supplying library should be free to adopt either NSDP or Anglo-American Cataloging Rules for current serials but need not change its retrospective records comprise at least the key elements of the international record, i.e. keytitle as supplied via NSDP from either national library or regional center 1. Assign ISSN/Key-title to titles reported via National Libraries and Regional Serials Data Centers. 7. Transmit ISSN''s and key-titles as assigned to the Regional Serials Data key-title assignment if not processed by NSDP through national libraries or another regional center. costs and required bibliographic and programming support to convert locally generated data bases, i.e., the Minnesota Union List of Serials 5782 While it is clearly outside the scope of this paper to review the state-ofthe-art of data base services, reference to a few key works and a brief introduction to the subject may be helpful. by the American Society for Information Science and the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services in 1973.2 A Study of Six University-Based Information Systems made by the National Bureau of Standards is essential and contains in convenient form comparative and descriptive information about these pioneering centers which are sponsored centers where these new data tapes could be used to provide current awareness and retrospective search services to users. Readable Reference Data Bases." Implied in that title are two basic assumptions that are widely accepted: one is that libraries will play a key role Again, it is unlikely that libraries will provide access to machine-readable data by setting up their own campus information centers to acquire 5783 The Ad Hoc Discussion Group on Serials Data Bases was formed as a result of an informal meeting held during the American Library Association''s Conference in Las Vegas on June 26, 1973. The Association of Research Libraries was conducting a study of the existing serials data bases held by their member institutions, but was not currently addressing the overall problem, particularly with regard to the 1. To establish a mechanism for creating a set of "agreed-upon practices for converting and communicating machine-readable serials data." 2. To establish a mechanism for cooperatively converting a comprehensive retrospective bibliographic data base of serials. 3. The investigation of future means of cooperative or coordinated serials record conversion of retrospective titles. It is the primary objective of the Cooperative Conversion Project to establish a relatively comprehensive bibliographic data base of serials titles 3. To establish a mechanism for the cooperative conversion of a comprehensive serials data base. 5784 Library Automation Program to cumulate the 1966 through 1971 supplements to the Library of Congress Subject Headings. of California Institute of Library Research MARC processing software, BIBCON, was used, with specially written programs. cumulation was edited, printed in book form, and made available to libraries. The Supplement Cumulation Task of the University of California Library Automation Program aimed at alleviating that problem by merging If the original data first appeared in the seventh edition and is later canceled, the cancel record remains in the cumulated supplement. Also, each record for a subdivision, class number, reference, tracing, or note contains the headings and subdivisions under which it files. Cases in the printed supplements where a heading is canceled and then Cumulating Supplements to LC Subject Headings/ TORKINGTON 231 The problem with using this interface in printing the cumulated supplements is that all keys begin with the 150 (i.e., heading) field, whereas 5785 The BIBCON file management system, designed for use on IBM 360 system equipment, performs two basic functions: (1) it creates MARC structured, bibliographic records from untagged input data; (2) from these records CONtrol (i.e., for creating, manipulating, formatting and outputting of MARC structured bibliographic records from catalog card input data). IBM utility sort for formation of book catalog entries from these records. At the heart of the system is the program which creates MARC-like records from unedited input data. list of variable field tags for AFR-MARC II (Automatic Field Recognition MARC II) records to that for LC-MARC II (Library of Congress A sample of an AFR-MARC II record created by the Automatic Field AFR creates MARC structured records from unedited input data. PRINTSUS is an output program which provides formatted AFRMARC II records, showing field tag, subfield delimiters, indicators, etc. There are two input files: bibliographic records, in MARC format, and Field Recognition program, BIBCON can produce MARC records 5786 The Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association now has a Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation technical standards relating to library automation; a focal point for information relating to automation standards; and a coordinator of standards proposals with appropriate organizations, e.g., the American National Standards Institute the Electronic Industries Association, N~tional Association of State Information Systems. University of California Berkeley General "Library Serials Key Word Index Page 372 And Bucknell''s on-line library data base includes records of ap-new American National Standards Institute (ANSI) catalog is available free of Standard Code for Information Interchange, X3.4-1968 (ASCII) on magnetic Standard Code for Information Interchange, X3.4-1968 (ASCII) on magnetic equipment using American National Standard Code for Information Interchange, Certified Data Processors Technical Standards Committee, to provide a method standard was for general information interchange at the interface between data present Z39.2-1971, the American National Standard for Bibliographic Information 5787 Key Papers in Informatwn Science. review, a strong feeling of nostalgia These are indeed "key papers," and it''s valuable to collection, this set of papers has value beyond nostalgia. Systems, ( 3) Organization and Dissemination of Information, and ( 4) Other functions of information transfer, especially for the sciences. paper by Lipetz on information storage The defined purpose of this collection is to serve students and instructors in introductory courses in information science, by making these key papers readily available as assigned readings. are useful readings, and the organization imposed on them by the editor, Elias, course in which we used the Key Papers have been due to the style of the instructor and the form of the course the fact lacks a consistent style. that these papers, "key" though they are, An introduction to information science requires that these are important papers, ones with 8924 What''s more, it was fascinating as well, for it was one of the loveliest examples of "communications dysfunction" I''ve ever seen. Librarians-information scientists-have always been concerned with the transfer of information. Whether one interprets information to be the book, and discusses its transfer in terms of acquisitions, circulation, and interlibrary loan, or one interprets information to be datum, and discusses transfer in terms of is the area of concern of the information profession. used to relay the message, the unit which is basic to the process of information transfer, i.e., the word, is a fractious thing. Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, a select group of Information specialists-listening without hearing, reading without comprehending, talking without communicating. "Network" concerns got defined in terms of ( 3) (operating foundation) and the jargon of the technical sector ( operations) were interpreted as being synonymous. specialists who cannot communicate.-Ruth L. Tighe, New England Library Information Network 8925 user groups to point the way toward better management, decision-making responsibility and authority continued to be misplaced in a few institutions which vested authority for technical decisions in a committee 4. Fear of the unknown big user.-It was recognized early that the library could be among the computer facility''s largest potential customers, facility changed its software environment, many library development computing facility very much resembles the library in two important aspects: ( 1) it is a production system; and ( 2) it is almost entirely an overhead function, i.e., there is little or no attempt at cost recovery from system users for its services. library acquiring and processing more and niore books in response to expanded publication patterns, more users, and the· growth of new ·disciplines and interdisciplinary research, while the computation facility moves and internal technical processing, the library will look less good, less "costbeneficial" to the academic community than does the computer facility. 8926 has been the human editing required (generally by a cataloger) to identify the many variable portions of the MARC-format cataloging record. Then the AFR computer program provides identification of the various elements of the catalog record through sophisticatedcomputer editing. The Institute of Library Research (ILR) at the University of California, faced with the need to convert 800,000 catalog records to MARC format, has developed a ·Jess ambitious AFR program which provides a level of this element of LC/ AFR it should be realized that the needs of the Library of Congress in creating original MARC records for nationwide distribution (and its own use) are much more sophisticated and complex than program itself, figures have been informally reported at library automation meetings indicating that the cost of record creation was approximately $1.00 per entry. This program is undeniably the least-cost effort to date providing a MARC-format bibliographic record. 8927 Mter discussion it was decided that Mr. Hammer would contact Ohio State University library and obtain information on exact procedure as to how this would be run, how it would be publicized, who would be referred to the ISAD Program Planning Committee for discussion MARBI and the ISAD Standards Committee ( TESLA). MARBI and the ISAD Standards Committee ( TESLA). One project discussed was to gather background information on bibliographic data centers and network activities and their needs for telecommunication facilities in order to draft a requirements statement. REPORT 6F THE INTERDIVISIONAL COMMITTEE ON MACHINE-READABLE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (MARBi). the subject of using lOLA TC for the interactive mechanism of presenting the proposal of a standard to the ISAD members for comment, and of REPORTS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE MARBI COMMITTEE new ISAD Committee on Technical Standards. 5. The ISAD Standards committee was discussed. FROM: John Kountz, Chairman, Committee on Technical Standards for Library SUBJECT: Report of Committee''s Activities, ALA Midwinter Meeting, 1974 8928 MARC data will be used as much as possible, with records for individual items using LC data as the source, i.e., proofsheets, NUC records, and catalog cards. 1• 2 Although LC had reported its survey regarding levels of completeness of MARC records and the conclusions reached by the RECON Working Attention was then turned to any additional elements of the format or modifications to present elements that may be required in order to interchange bibliographic data among institutions. When the LC card number is known by an agency transcribing cataloging data, field 001 should National Serials Data Base (A Paper for national serials data base in machine-readable form. 1. The MARC Serials Distribution Service of the Library of Congress and together were not building a national serials data base in machine-readable form fast enough to satisfy the OCLC will have on-line serials cataloging and input capability which will extend to some two hundred libraries. 8929 Computer Systems in the Library: A Once every year or two, either in England or the United States, a book appears attempting to explain computer systems to librarians. Systems in the Library, is the most recent In this instance, money is included as a reason to automate, for we are when a function is automated." Automation''s impact on the library''s research and apparently existing automated systems, used in automated circulation systems, Library automation problems are treated as being not to automation in libraries. computer systems have given up the Library of Congress [filing] system for in automated systems will not need this about automation and the systems analyst who needs to understand library systems The editors describe this book as a sequel to the important Public Library and on public library service. library and information services of whatever kind. The public library must adapt to a 8931 During 1973, the existence of two study groups sponsored by the Council formal identification of these groups, their goals, and their relation to CLR Informal communication had it that this group of library automation experts originally was to devise a standardized subset of the MARC monograph format; however, a full year passed without public announcement project draws upon the considerable efforts of the ad hoc "Toronto" group, CLR, to discuss national bibliographic control, with a small number study by forming a closed working group of skilled professionals, there should be able to contract with the Library of Congress or to fund an existing RASD Representation in Machine-Readable Form of Bibliographic Information Committee ( MARBI), the appropriate ALA committee. with the desired task goals, within the Library of Congress, the National CLR has done many good deeds for the library world in its lifetime; it 8932 For example, the expression ignores use of a book within the library, and identifies demand in a As these various factors seemed too complex to derive usable mathematical results, we decided to use computer simulation of the book circulation. As these various factors seemed too complex to derive usable mathematical results, we decided to use computer simulation of the book circulation. A separate study was made for a small sample of books, to compare the percentage time on shelf estimated by the simulation with the actual time for which a copy was available, found by looking at the shelves. predicted and observed percentage time on shelf which could be corrected by changing the value of the within-library use parameter to The number of loans of each copy of each book during the period was noted and the library staff carried out a thorough check 8933 Moraine Valley''s off-line operation, based on a file of 715 periodical titles, generates renewal orders, sends claims, and records subscription histories. more and more time-consuming, a serials technician was assigned to maintain subscriptions, straighten out old problems, check in periodicals, and were records for each renewal of purchase order number, subscription Kardex files; the Kardex card also holds the latest publisher''s mailing label. A worksheet was made up to give all the necessary renewal information to the typist and the actual purchase order typed Space was allocated to each field, using information recorded on the history cards, and the coding of certain fixed and the addition of fields for the purchase order number (Figure 3, Item 013) Wlitten so these data could be automatically transferred to the history record card at renewal time. determines the current subscription price and number of years to renew each flagged title and updates these fields. 8934 This paper defines an access method for bibliographic reco1''ds that combines features of the sea1''ch key app1''oach and the inverted file approach. enter the file by means of words taken from the title of a book. This approach associates a search key with each record, hopefully one that is simple and easily derived. that the user enter a set of key words taken from various fields in the records; the title would be very useful in this regard. a complete search of the full records can be made for the key words. the system operates in two phases, it is less sensitive to the number of records the search key retrieves as far as user considerations are concerned. (b) On the basis of the search key the system creates a sub file of record addresses and signatures taken from the index-if the user is G. Kilgour, "A Truncated Search Key Title Index," Journal of 8935 partitioning of names can be obtained by key-sets generated from the initial characters of surnames, fmm the terminal characters of surnames, long when the characters comprising them represent frequent combinations, and short when the characters are infrequent.11 Since the sets of attributes can generate, in an approximate manner, the variety of items encountered in the data base, they are termed variety generato1·s. They are intermediate in number between the primitive set of symbols ( alphanumeric characters in the case of text, atoms and bonds in that of chemical structures) and the actual variety of items in the collection (words or word Successive right-hand truncations of a surname during key-set generation Entries in File Characters Digrams Trigrams of Key-set The problem of variations in name length, as well as the very different distributions of the characters at these positions, were not encouraging, and instead the production of key-sets from the last letter of the sur- 8936 During ALA Midwinter, January 1973, the Library of Congress (LC) suggested to the RTSD/ISAD/RASD Committee on Representation in Machine-Readable Form of Bibliographic Information that a MARC advisory committee be formed to work with the MARC Development Office regarding changes made to the various MARC formats. (in both fixed and variable fields) and content designators (tags, indicators, and subfield codes) made to the format as well as additions, modifications, and deletions made to the tape labels. made by the ALA (RTSDjCCSjDCC) committee, LC will consult with the MARC advisory committee with respect to their implementation in those cases affecting the MARC format.''~* Wherever possible, depending upon resources available, the number of records affected, and the type of change, the retrospective flies will be subfield codes, addition or deletion of fixed fields, or change to the leader. 8937 The 1''0le of ISAD''s Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation is examined and discussed. that the Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation Within this context the emphasis by TESLA shall be on technical standards for library automation (e.g., standards relating to electronic data function will stress and foster the involvement of individuals or organizational units within the American Library Association wherever data-dependent technical standards are involved. the American Library Association nor ISAD nor TESLA will become standards organizations in the strict sense of the word. Note that the parenthetical statements following most of the outline entry descriptions relate to the ANSI Standards Proposal section headings to facilitate the translation proposals to standards organizations outside the American Library Association. the originator, and to the official American Library Association representative on the appropriate standards organization where it should prove a 8945 distributed machine-readable catalog records for English-language monographs, more than 300,000 MARC records representing the current English-language monograph cataloging at the Library of Congress. MARC/RECON Records (v, 48p.) reports on studies conducted at the Library Initiative Standard Proposal OutlineThe following outline and forms are designed to facilitate review by both the The Library Systems Project of the California State University and Colleges has executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, has been named director of SOLINET effective July 1. or cards (which contain the full title, author/ editor, call number, library designation, and series information) and an "author" card (which contains the index the library and information science community. bibliographic data service for libraries, has IDC, a New England-based library systems supplier, will provide a computerstored cataloging data base of more than of all Library of Congress MARC records Concerned with national problems of libraries and information services, he will director for library development, Project 8946 language studies, economics, libraries, museums, and social research. presentation of the problems and potential of computers in any of the fields considered, and perhaps the best short presentation yet published for economics. Much of each summary is indicative and not really informative about the discussions. computers to information retrieval and related problems. of information systems" and that the book interactive information retrieval, programming languages, generalized data management systems). the topics covered, at least in their information retrieval applications, are not discussed particularly well or particularly student of information science. happy about Meadow''s discussion of indexing and index languages, which I find number of statements are made throughout the discussion on index languages that For example, the discussion on automatic indexing is by no means a complete review of cataloging, serials, circulation, and management information) ; Reference Services; Related Technologies; and Library Then an outline of the instructional material is presented, followed by 8947 a rather cacophonous debate concerning MARC as a "standard," and the definition of a MARC compatible record. bibliographic record, the specific analysis to which it is subjected in an Rather, a more pragmatic approach is taken based on an evaluation of the costs to manufacturers ANSI standards, for example, are subject to employed in an LC/MARC record. bibliographic data may be transmitted is accepted as a codified national orders, a bibliographic record, an abstract, or an authority record by adopting specific conventions regarding the interpretation of numeric tags. Content designators (numeric tags, subfields, delimiters, etc.) It might safely be said that in the most common use of a MARC system which accepts a record as created by LC produces from the compatible 1·ecord products not discernibly different from those created from an LC/MARC record. LC/MARC record. Thus, what is called for is a family of standards all downwardly compatible with LC/MARC, employing ANSI Z39.2 as a structural base. 8948 obstacles confronting the Worldng Group, stated the scope of responsibility for the Working Group, and gave definitions of the terms, tags, indicator and data element identifiers, as well as a statement of the function of functions of the content designators as agreed to by the Working Group at a standard list of content designators for different forms of material for the international interchange of bibliographic data. The designation of main content does not require that a data field contain all possible data elements all the time. Whatever the agreed upon level of content designation is, those agencies with formats more detailed will be able to translate Prior to any deliberation regarding the actual value of content designators, the Working Group realized it must agree on a set of basic principles One method is to place the information on the related work in a single field within the record. 8949 The second section contains discussions on the techniques for special processing of data within Three basic groups are treated: the duplication method, the internal coding techniques, and the automatic handling techniques. These allow one to perform separate operations within a bibliographic element, based on a special indication of certain character strings within the text. the types of internal coding techniques used in the field level systems and Methods for special treatment of words or characters within bibliographic text were for the most part introduced to suppmt exact file arrangement procedures and printing operations. The technique of the duplication of bibliographic elements has also been considered in subfield level systems. For instance, in MARC LC, one byte per field is provided containing the sorting field code, even if no filing information at all As mentioned in the description of subfield level systems, two indicators are added for each field present. 8950 This master file contains a complete bibliographic record for each title cataloged by the library, including from the REPLACE program may be input to all other MARCIVE programs, such as EDIT, CATALOG CARD, UPDATE, etc. as retained in the MARCIVE file, the data in catalog card format, and the A library might use the Error-Edit for cataloging data from the MARCCON file as the proofreading has occurred after the SEARCH phase. However, the program''s method of retrieval is by comparing input data with each record on the file, which can be a very expensive process. the REPLACE program, the correction required on MARC SEARCH records is minimal and a great many catalog cards can be created with little method of input, whether the MARC tapes are searched, which EDIT listing is used, and the length and number of cards produced. The costs for catalog cards produced by OCLC and MARCIVE are similar. 8951 Methods for optimization of key-sets are desc1·ibed, and the performance of key-sets varying in size between 150 and 300 is determined at file combining these key-sets with keys for the first and second initials were determined by applying them to the 50,000 name file, and the entropy value each ratio the keys were applied to the 50,000 name entries, and the distribution of the resultant descriptions determined. combined key-sets to the file of 50,000 names were determined. showed virtually no difference in terms of the relative entropy alone, although the total number of different entries differed slightly between keysets, and the highest value was used to choose the optimal set, detailed in Frequencies of Entries Represented by Optimal Key-Set of 296 Keys in a File of applicability of a key-set optimized for one file of 50,000 names to another various positions in the names, and to compare them with those of the optimal key-sets employed in the variety-generator approach. 8952 committee could be used by ISAD to ensure that its members are adequately informed. ISAD Board members indicated an interest in and a need for a service Mr. Hammer reviewed the action of the Board previously in deciding to eliminate the History Committee and appoint a For other charges to the Bylaws and Organization Committee, Mr. Kilgour referred Ms. Schmierer to the minutes of the 197 4 Midwinter Meeting. Mr. Kilgour called for a motion recommending that ALA become a member of the Committee of Corporate Telephone Users, an organization to Mr. Kilgour suggested that committee reports It was moved by Ralph Shoffner that all ISAD committee reports be submitted to the Board in writing and that the chairman appear before the Board only if the committee desired some Board action, Mr. Kilgour suggested that committee appointments be sent to the Board COMMITTEE ON TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR LIBRARY AUTOMATION (TESLA) REPORT. 8953 the new light-pen inventory control system which was being developed for use card file which lists hard-to-find information concerning organizations, associations, and periodicals in the field. The library information and development program is a new passenger on the for libraries and information services, and abstracts of simulation models, application and computational programs, and information retrieval systems are derived the following general categories: biosciences, medical sciences, business, manufacturing, management, education, libraries, environment, ecology, nature, government (federal, state, local), urban affairs, legal, humanities, specific industries, Jones-Bunker Ramo News Retrieval Service Inc., in turn will market the data satellite, the library information project Library Association and the American Society for Information Science will cosponsor a preconference institute on "Automated Serials Control: National and International Considerations." The institute Initiative Standard Proposal OutlineThe following outline and forms are designed to facilitate review by both the the list of potential standards areas for library automation, below, was developed. 8954 the continuing stream of reports of automated processes in individual libraries First, in a section entitled "Environment," the library, its collections, and book) , and the next section, "The System," gives a lengthy and detailed description of how the system works. last section in each case is devoted to observations by Palmer, indicating the significance to the library of the automated weak is the suggestion that the book constitutes an effective rebuttal to the criticisms of Ellsworth Mason. text on automated information technology," and mechanization is pretty well dismissed in one page of critical discussion. has a library, consultation with the librarian and use of his mechanisms for acquisition and purchase are advisable." It is also suggested that acquisitions are "recommended by the systems advisory committee . 242 Journal of Library Automation Vol. 7/3 September 1974 A Library Management Game: A Report of managerial education in library schools, of library education needs considerable 8955 Meeting" reflects the library automation community''s growing concern create products and market them in order to support desired internal services. Almost always, we are lucky and are able to discover for ourselves the true nature of the products being advertised. and prestigious library is about to sign a contract for servic~s or products unwise and unfair to accuse an advertiser of misleading his market on the of resistance to the sales talk; ( 4) use the library profession''s invisible college to determine the validity of the claims and the experiences that others have had with the firm; and ( 5) support the attempts of our professional societies, such as ALA and ASIS, to require organizations to maintain certain advertising standards. The library market is expanding and maturing; therefore, these growing adequate education and awareness on the part of the buyer, with some pressures placed on advertisers by the professional community, and with 8956 . domain name is for sale. Inquire now. Complete your offer Email Phone Message The Domain Name Is For Sale! This premium domain name is available for purchase! Buy safely and securely with Escrow.com When buying ., your transaction is securely processed by Escrow.com, a licensed escrow company. . USD 3,995 below, to get in touch with the owner of this domain name. Offer Offer Offer Offer Offer Or Buy Now Or Buy Now Click here to enter. This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your browser. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your browser. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your browser. Coming soon. 8957 Library literature generally assumes that COM is bette1· suited to staff rather than patron use applications. This paper describes a COM serials holdings list intended for patton use. Emphasis is placed on the selection of an appropriate microformat and easily operable viewing equipment as conditions of success fo1'' patron use. This article describes the substitution of microfilm for paper as the computer output medium in one of the most common library automation applications, a serials holdings list intended for use by library patrons. of patron acceptance of technological innovation, the recent literature reports COM applications intended solely for staff use. staff rather than patron use among the characteristics of potentially successful library COM applications. on the computer than on micrographics, but for a patron-use COM application the selection of an appropriate microformat is of the greatest importance.5 However, there has been an unfortunate emphasis placed, both 8958 form, public service librarians are devising ways to use the information While many of the computer applications in special libraries were designed to improve subject access to the collections, the systems adopted in use its automated circulation system using a data base representing its complete shelflist with limited information on each title: Number of holdings (not displayed if copy 1, main library) The title search option is one possibility for finding subject access. example, to find a book on "evolution" one can enter the title search command TLS/EVOL----and receive a report that there are 757 titles in These titles were printed in a hard-copy printout in the following format with a program designed by Gerry Guthrie of the Research and Development Division of the OSU Libraries: 8 This experiment in manipulating machine-readable library records for use in subject searching 8959 Improved Delivery of Library Materials: by solving, through the application of operations research methods, a complex problem of delivery of library materials in an urban, multisystem library service region. Cleveland in 1968, it became apparent that improved communications answer only a part of the problem of shared access to library materials. problem: how to make the total resources of all types of libraries in Greater Cleveland more accessible to all, hopefully, by providing daily delivery Operations Research Study and Design of an Optimal Distribution Network for Selected Public, Academic, and Special Libraries in Greater had the operations research approach been utilized to improve a library delivery system of the scope of that with which we were dealing. in consideration of the network of library demands and geographical locations of garages, vehicles, and drivers. Utility CU1''Ves for the Timeliness of Library .Materials Delivery. delivery within a week; timeliness value (utility), as shown in Figures 3 8960 This paper describes a user-interactive system for the selection and display of pictorial information stored on microfiche cards in a computeJ''This information includes the viewer picture display control codes which are recognized and intercepted by For every picture stored in the viewer, the value for each of these parameters is stored in a disc file. values for the parameters he is interested in, the computer program compares these values with the known values in its records for the picture set. variable-length portion contains the known values, for the associated picture, of the specification parameters. Viewer control codes for frames containing different versions of, or auxiliary data for, the picture. Once the user has made a decision selecting a set of pictures, he is presented with a list of the available parameters and acceptable values for There are commands that request the control program to type out on the I/0 terminal the information in a picture 8961 and faster for binary vectors than for the standard form of inverted files. inverted file, Gorokhov concentrated on developing a technique for locating and removing strings of zeroes occurring in the binary vectors used Heaps and Thiel have also discussed the use of compressed binary vectors as the basis of an inverted index file. compression algorithm for the binary vector in the IBM 360, the term subvector will be defined as a string of contiguous bytes chosen from within bytes while the space required to record the document numbers in the standard inverted file remains fifteen bytes. 1. search times for the binary vector file are related to the number of 2. search times for the standard inverted file are related to the number of postings in the index terms in the query, binary vector file or average search time per posting for the standard inverted file. 8962 was to review the options available in networking, to provide a framework for identifying problems, and to suggest evaluation strategies to aid in choosing alternative systems. of directors of the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (InCoLSA) was The Stanford University Libraries automated technical processing system, file of Library of Congress MARC data Call Number (catalog data and reference file records only) BALLOTS Files may be ordered by writing to: Editor, Library Computing Services, S.C.I.P.-Willow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. (lSI) has announced that it will collaborate with System Development Corporation (SDC) to provide on-line, interactive, computer searches of the life sciences Stressing ease of access, the SDC retrieval program, ORBIT, permits subscribers to conduct extremely rapid literature searches through two-way communications terminals located in their own The ISAD Committee on Technical Standards for Library Automation Invites Your Initiative Standard Proposal OutlineThe following outline is designed to facilitate review by both the committee and the on "Standards for Library Automation 8963 This book starts with a five-page foreword by Allen Kent entitled "KWIC indexes have come a long way-or have book (apart from the index) appears already to have been presented as Dr. Duncan''s Ph.D. thesis at the University of However, budgetary constraints forced a transfer of operations in 1970 to the Data Processing Center, which undertook rewriting of library programs in 1971. eastern Europe in their attempts to develop effective national systems for the dissemination of scientific and technical information. national science information systems." Unfortunately, they do not attempt to indicate which of these organizational structures was most effective in bringing about Easy to use and as up to date and balanced a book as any in a rapidly changing field can be, Lancaster and Fayen The Australian format has also included, as part of its record, a series of cross-reference fields identified by 9XX tags. The Australian MARC has identified some data elements that LC has not,