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Download full textSettel, Barbara, Ed. – 1977
Term selection methodology used in the Subject Access Project is outlined in this manual. This project was designed to demonstrate how a card catalog in machine-readable form can be augmented to allow greater subject access to the information content of a library collection. Rules and regulations for selecting words from indexes and contents pages…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Experimental Programs, Guides
PDF pending restorationAtherton, Pauline – 1977
This third quarterly report for the period January to March 1977 describes the production schedule, records, and estimated costs and times in creating the Subject Access Project data base. Plans for on-line use of the data base and search strategy design are outlined. A table of specifications for preparing the data base for on-line searching is…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases, Experimental Programs
Atherton, Pauline – 1976
The Subject Access Project second quarterly report for September to December 1976 summarized in-progress work to improve subject access to monographs. Activities include: (1) analysis of book indexes and tables of contents for terms to augment MARC subject description; (2) analysis of additional book sections--e.g., maps, illustrations, charts,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Content Analysis, Databases, Experimental Programs
Cooper, Michael D.; DeWath, Nancy A. – 1975
A cost analysis was made of on-line bibliographic searching in four public libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area using the Lockheed DIALOG system. The study involved monitoring the time that 35 individuals in the libraries spent processing some 411 search requests. The study identified a set of seven tasks that are performed for each request and…
Descriptors: Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Experimental Programs
Atherton, Pauline – 1978
Findings are reported for a project designed to improve subject access to books by augmenting MARC records with subject descriptions. A BOOKS data base, consisting of humanities and social science monographs, was created and made available for online searching. The availability of suitable information in books to produce augmented subject…
Descriptors: Books, Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases
Noback, Richardson K.; Byrd, Gary D. – 1977
This report represents the extended research following an initial three-year grant reported on in 1975. Goals were: (1) to enact, observe, and assess the results of a program in which medical librarians become integral members of multi-disciplinary patient care and educational teams; and (2) to test the ability of these Clinical Medical Librarians…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Experimental Programs
Zunde, Pranas – 1975
Emphasizing the design of a data base management system for the experimental STITE (Scientific and Technical Information Transfer for Education) project, this progress report details the emerging features of this projected facility. Compiled by four STITE researchers, the report examines: science information communication, learning, dissemination,…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Computer Programs, Concept Formation, Databases
