The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) launched the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) in 2002. ARC was the first centralized system for describing materials held throughout NARA's nationwide system of archival repositories. ARC's complicated development involved the entire agency, as staff wrestled with years of distinct descriptive…

The Web-at-Risk project is a digital preservation project funded by the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The project is developing a Web archiving service to enable curators to build, store, and manage archived collections of Web-published materials captured largely from U.S.…

Rules and guidelines are provided for the process of acquiring documents and journal articles to be considered for inclusion in the ERIC database. The differing responsibilities of the Government, the ERIC Clearinghouses, and the ERIC Facility are delineated. The various methods by which documentary material can be obtained are described. Sample…

A description of the National Center for Scientific and Technical Documentation, Brussels. (JG)

Rules and guidelines are provided for the process of acquiring documents to be considered for inclusion in the ERIC database. The differing responsibilities of the Government, the ERIC Clearinghouses, and the ERIC Facility are delineated. The various methods by which documentary material can be obtained are described and preferences outlined.…

The compilation consists of a guide to acronyms and alphabetic designations used by the Department of Defense (DOD), federal government and foreign military organizations on documents to designate reports on research monitored by them and cataloged by the Defense Documentation Center (DDC). In all instances the acronyms are those actually used by…

The International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials--ISBD(S)--provides a format for the international communication of bibliographic information so that records may be interchanged between sources, interpreted across language barriers, and converted to machine readable form. The ISBD(S) standards are limited to the descriptive…

The Committee was established in 1967 to advise the Director-General on questions of documentation in general, and in particular on those related to subject fields of interest to UNESCO. The second session, reported here, was devoted to the examination of UNESCO's activities in documentation, libraries and archives in 1967-1968; UNESCO's program…

The purpose of this paper is to describe a method of finding the significant attributes of documents established during the course of research on the automatic classification of documents. The problem was first approached by examining the way in which an existing hierarchical classification system classifies things. The study of biological…

Introduces a novel order statistic, the "adapted Gini index," and relates it to the conventional form of Bradford's law. An alternative index of dispersion is suggested based on the relative entropy of the frequency distribution. A variety of experimental data is reported. (VT)

Traces the history of the National Central Library (NCL), which merged with the National Lending Library for Science and Technology in 1973 to form the British Library Lending Division (BLLD), including the central organization, start of the NCL, regional offices, voluntary cooperation, specialized material, and NLLST. (VT)

This paper begins by discussing the term "bibliography" in light of Rudolf Blum's exhaustively learned treatise, and continues with an original exposition on "documentation." Authors who contributed to the development of the meaning of "documentation" are cited. Sixty-nine references are included. (EJS)

A study was undertaken to classify mechanically a document collection using the free-language words in titles and abstracts of physics research papers. Using a clustering algorithm, results were obtained which closely duplicated clusters obtained by previous experiments with citations. A brief comparison is made with a traditional manual…

This paper explains a modified Library of Congress J'' class numbering scheme for the processing of government documents. The proposal is based on the idea that a uniform standard numbering scheme is one of the necessary elements in the functioning of a large research documents collection. (24 references) (Author/SJ)