Annual reports of instructional media and instructional development centers associated with higher education were surveyed to develop a cost-benefit model for better documentation of instructional development projects. The goal was to compare, contrast, and summarize the various reporting procedures used in annual reports. An analysis was made as…

Discussions between Portugal and Sweden regarding cooperation in the field of education have been going on since 1975. This report outlines short term and long range goals, conditions, and proposals of the Swedish mission to Portugal to implement modern information and documentation services in scientific and technical research and development.…

The Library of Congress presents a guide for visitors and new staff members to the history, organization, functions, funding, and responsibilities of its processing department. The responsibilities of the director and three assistant directors are briefly described. Twenty-three charts illustrate the organization of the department as a whole; the…

Over 300 serials held by the Library Science Library at the University of Michigan are arranged by continent, then by country. For each serial the title and place of publication are given. (DS/PF)

This document provides an introduction to and instructions for the use of AGDEX, a comprehensive numeric filing system to classify and organize a wide variety of agricultural publications. The index is subdivided and color coded according to the following categories: (1) field crops; (2) horticulture; (3) forestry; (4) animal science; (5) soils;…

The periodicals listed in this bibliography are those published in Latin America and the Caribbean that deal exclusively with educational themes. Information for each entry, when available, includes the title, subtitle, name and address of publisher, frequency of publication, year the publication began and/or terminated, any previous title, and…

This pamphlet seeks to answer most of the questions and correct some of the mistakes the author encountered during a first-hand study of conditions in over 100 small museums. The pamphlet is a short presentation of the fundamental elements of good museum management, with clarifying comments for those least familiar with museum work. The main…

Publications offered for sale by the International Federation for Documentation (FID), an agency devoted to documentation and information science, are listed. The publications, which are in many languages, are arranged by subject matter. Among the topics covered are: research and development, documentation practice, linguistics, and the Universal…

The 37th FID (International Federation for Documentation) Conference in The Hague in September 1974 brought together some 150 participants from 35 countries and 7 international organizations. The FID program covers the following fields: (1) theoretical studies and research in documentation, librarianship and information science, terminology,…

The course contained in this book was written for training data processing machine operators; it is intended to prepare adults to qualify for an entry-level job. It is not aimed at developing high proficiency on any one machine, but rather at introducing the student to a variety of equipment, and developing an understanding of how the data flow…

Thirty-two papers presented at the seventh annual seminar of the Documentation Research and Training Center explore: (1) Universe of Subjects - Its Development and Structure, (2) Subject Analysis and Classification, (3) Subject Headings, (4) Librametry and Its Scope, (5) Subject Analysis, (6) Library Work, (7) Documentation List, (8) Library…

The opening session of the seventh annual seminar of the Documentation Research and Training Center is provided in verbatim form. The section of Group Meetings and Plenary Sessions examines the propositions presented in the thirty-two papers presented in Volume I (LI 002 230). The balance of the report provides: (1) the Valedictory Address and the…

In 1963, the International Federation for Documentation (FID) promoted the institution of documentation and scientific information chairs at the universities and other institutes of higher learning in all its member countries. A chair of scientific information was set up at the Lomonosov University of Moscow in the 1963/64 academic year. One of…

The National Bureau of Standards is mechanizing a catalog of currently available information sources and services. Information from recent surveys of machine-readable, commercially-available bibliographic data bases, and the various current awareness, batch retrospective, and interactive retrospective services which can access them have been…

Documents produced by international organizations attached to the United Nations sometimes create problems in their great variety of publication practices, but most have the objectives of producing information for use internationally, of improving standards and methods, and of making statistics more comparable. Generally, information is obtained…