A COMPILATION OF REVIEWS OF ARTICLES, BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RELATIVE TO THE PLANNING OF HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES IS THE END PRODUCT OF A COURSE OF THIS TITLE OFFERED AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. EACH REVIEW INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR, TITLE, JOURNAL AND DATE OF PUBLICATION WITH A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE CONTENT OF THE REFERENCE. THE…

This preliminary bibliography was prepared as a listing of background materials for use in connection with the development of an experimental thesaurus for the language sciences. The first half of the bibliography contains references to 68 sources of information on indexing materials in the language sciences. Actual indexes, lists of specialized…

As the final volume in a 4-volume evaluation report on the University of Massachusetts Non-Formal Education Project (UMass NFEP) initiated in rural Ecuador in 1973, this volume presents appendices to volumes I-III. Appendix A includes the following items: (1) Community Demographic Profile; (2) Description of Introduction to the Community; (3)…

Provided is a manual which explains policies and procedures followed in the cataloging, abstracting, and data entry of information on instructional, measurement, training, and prototype materials for the handicapped to be stored in the NIMIS (National Instructional Materials Information System) data base. It is noted that close adherence to the…

In addition to the list of HumRRO publications and presentations, of FY 1974, an annotated section incorporates the material from the Bibliography of Publications and Presentations During FY 1972-73. Research reports issued by HumRRO during FY 1974 are listed as are publications by staff members in professional journals and presentations at…

UNESCO, in cooperation with several other organizations, has produced a manual, the scope and purpose of which has been to define, for most types of scientific and technical literature, a set of data elements which will constitute an adequate bibliographic citation, and to define the representation of these data elements as they should appear in a…

In developing a nationwide education information system, the U. S. Office of Education faced two problems common to many countries: (1) How to develop a system for education, a field with little experience in modern information systems; and (2) How to acquaint educators with the system and train them in using its services. This paper reports…

Emphasis in this manual is placed on the changing pattern of librarianship, and deals with the fundamental principles and functions of the special library as well as an over-view of the techniques of documentation and information storage and retrieval. Chapters covered include: (1) Modern Librarianship and Contemporary Culture; (2) Special…

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…