Intended to help human communications in the wide area which is being opened up by computers and by the new thinking they have generated, this encyclopaedia has been compiled with the help of specialists who are physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, systems consultants, economists, psychologists, physiologists, documentalists, and…

Unesco's Department of Documentation Libraries and Archives was established in 1967. During its first three years of existence, the department organized and gradually established its services. In 1970 it consisted of three divisions: (1) Promotion of Research and International Co-operation in Documentation; (2) Development of Documentation,…

The objectives of the seminar were to report on: (1) the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) project work; (2) the UDC work, trends and opinions in Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries and (3) the production and development of UDC schedules and indexes, and Perreault's work on "relators." Twelve of…

Subjects covered in this bibliography include manual, mechanized and automated techniques, evaluation of systems, standards, storage and retrieval systems, research, vocabularies, author participation, permuted title indexing, citation indexing, and specialized indexing requirements, i.e. chemistry, medicine, patents, engineering drawing, and…

Assessing specific information for value, one of the processes in information retrieval, is accomplished in this annotated bibliography by selection of the documents themselves and identification of the information therein. A new classification scheme for use in information retrieval was developed. This classification is a modification of…

Cutbacks in funding and personnel required the Mankato State College Library to gain more effective control over its serials collection. The task was to integrate the various data, some unrecorded, on standing orders and serials holdings and to produce for the library directors specialized lists of many types: all titles ordered from a specific…

This thesaurus is a list of descriptors and identifiers for the international indexing and retrieving of documents and data in the field of education. The descriptors are placed in seven broad fields; context terms, administration and research terms, instructional terms, people, growing and learning, content, and things. The terms of each field…

This outline of library science in the area of museology and art history provides bibliographies on various facets of art librarianship; art; architecture; museums; history; current state; journals; professional programs and organizations; relationship with government, foundations, and business; information sources; processing of art books,…

As established within the framework of the UNISIST world science information system, the International Serials Data System (ISDS) is an international network of operational national and regional centers, jointly responsible for the creation and maintenance of computer based data banks, which contain essential information for the identification of…

A Primary Author's Language (PAL-X) has been developed to serve as a documentation language for computer-assisted instructional (CAI) programs. Its development was necessary to permit the dissemination of CAI given the facts that: 1)existing CAI programs were written in over 60 languages; 2)the system for COURSEWRITER II, the most commonly used…

Micropublishing, a new technology, has provided small-circulation periodicals, which have little advertising revenues, with an alternative to escalating costs of traditional paper publication. The process of micropublishing which is most serviceable for short-run periodicals involves the use of microfiche--a small piece of film which can contain…

Testimony given by Dr. John Rothman, Manager of Information Services, New York Times, before the General Subcommittee on Education ... describes the information retrieval system of the New York Times. He describes how the system will process material efficiently and economically, store it securely and in proper order, and make it available via…

This study was developed and approved as a pilot project preliminary to the major task of abstracting, classifying and assessing approximately one thousand dance research studies. Most of these studies are university sponsored, date from 1901 to the present, and are found on library shelves or in department files as master's theses. When the major…

The studies and research reviews included in the annotated bibliography consist primarily of published works dealing with the effects on learning from instructional materials of overt and covert responding, and such attention-directing devices as the presentation of instructional objectives and test-embedded questions. Sources used to identify…

This bibliography is the result of an intensive search through all available indexing and abstracting sources in the fields of library science, information science, documentation and computer science. The purpose is to support an investigation into the nature of an information worker and provisions for his education. The basis of selection was…