The welfare of mathematics, as a scientific discipline and as a service provider for other sciences and technology, will, in the future, very much depend on how well the profession continues to enrich, to preserve, and to archive the mathematical scholarly literature, its common heritage. It will also depend on the fact that the mathematical…

The FID Central Classification Committee is responsible for UDC and its revision. The Standard Reference Code (SRC) has been developed to meet the FID need for a new superstructure of UDC and the UNISIST need for a Broad System of Ordering. UDC and SRC will have a strong influence on each other. (Author/JB)

Mechanization has been introduced in the preparation of UDC and alphabetical indexes using a KWIC Program to access directly documentation files. A special feature of the system is that the KWIC serial number equals the program sorting number equals the encoded UDC form equals the storage or shelving number. (9 references) (Author/NH)

About 200 events in the field of information and documentation and their probable time of occurrence were investigated in three groups using the Delphi Technique: tomorrow's library, technological breakthroughs in information storage and transfer, and future developments in the field. (3 references) (Author/SJ)

A critical appraisal of the GAP's review of the major report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children. (MB)

The accomplishments of the last twenty years in documentation, automation, information retrieval, and the incipient information science have been impressive, but much more remains to be learned. (25 references) (Author)

A description of the activities of the Documentation, Library and Archives Department of the Algiers Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is run by a small staff on a modest budget, provides documentation services for the staff of the Chamber of Commerce and also assists other centers in Algeria. (Author)

This account of the Centre, prepared by the Secretariat of the Council of Europe, is in three parts: the first, Background, explains its origins and policy framework; the sections headed Operations and Publications respectively describe its functions as a library" and as a publishing house." (Author)

The role of the generality effect in retrieval system evaluation is assessed, and evaluation results are given for the comparison of several document collections of distinct size and generality in the areas of documentation and aerodynamics. (14 references) (Author)

To obtain financing for an energy conservation program the person responsible must have credibility, document actual savings, and furnish research reports about systems requested. (MLF)

Examines the constraining nature of legal language, legal terminology, the differences among legal systems, problems of documentation, and an interdisciplinary approach to legal translation, and their relationship to the teaching of legal translation. (AM)

Examined contents of documentation intended to record views of children placed for adoption. Found that half contained no such information, there was little relationship between child's age and length of documentation, guardians ad litum provided a vital addition to social workers' documentation, and neither guardians nor social workers paid…

Discusses automatic document classification and document retrieval systems and presents a strategy for building a morphological machine dictionary of English that infers meaning of derivations by considering morphological affixes and their semantic classification. Proposes a method for selecting compound field association terms from a large pool…

Discusses browsing in the particular context of visual and multimedia (e.g., videodisc) information databases and describes a working prototype system based on a fisheye view of documents in their context. Topics discussed include selecting and presenting information, exploratory access to information, artificial intelligence, user needs, and…

Argues for precision (consistency) in citing, proposing an approach to citation analysis that ranks citation-signallers according to usefulness. Suggests that it is misguided to classify citation-signallers by the nature of the motivations inferred to underlie their use. (JKP)