A description of the program set up by the Northern States Power Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to prepare itself for increasing change in the social environment in which the company operates. (HB)

Those planning educational facilities should recognize the vital importance of energy conservation and its future effects on both the ecology of the nation and the economics of the school. (Author)

Sampled Alabama Power Company customers (N=521) to predict public support for government assistance to older persons in paying their home energy bills. Results suggested that the elderly were perceived to be more needy, deserving, and grateful than low income, disabled and unemployed persons and those in poor health. (Author/JAC)

A load programer that controls energy usage has reduced the annual budget of the Blair Community School District (Nebraska) by approximately $10,000. (MLF)

A senior nuclear physicist examines the status of nuclear power in the 1980s, projects the future beyond 2030, and argues that the world cannot do without nuclear fission. (BT)

Although hypertext system usage has been studied, little research has examined the relationship of searcher performance and perception of performance, particularly for hypertext-based information retrieval systems for bibliographic data. This article reports preliminary findings of a study at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in which 83…

Discusses how archivists use the MARC AMC (Archival and Manuscripts Control) format for descriptive information about archival materials. Modifications that MARC AMC introduced to the standard MARC bibliographic formats are explained, and examples of a record in AMC formats on different bibliographic utilities are given. (24 references) (LRW)

Describes key developments in the bibliographic control of microform sets, including the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Microform Project Survey and contributions by bibliographic utilities. The need for libraries, micropublishers, and bibliographic utilities to cooperate in the formation of cataloging standards and practices is…

A year's cataloging backlog was sampled to learn if there were categories of materials that would receive priority cataloging at the Library of Congress or identifiable categories that should receive immediate local cataloging attention. Characteristics of uncataloged materials examined included subject areas, type of purchasing plan, and type of…

Discussion of the revision of cataloging rules to simplify catalog records focuses on the information relating to publication, formerly called the imprint. Highlights include a review of cataloging codes; Library of Congress rules interpretations; the impact on bibliographic utilities; implications for technical and public services; and publishing…

Describes a study that was conducted to determine the types of records found in OCLC and WLN (Washington Library Network) for new monographs being cataloged at the Central Washington University library. Highlights include a summary of pertinent literature; hit rates; classification numbers; duplicate records; and serial and monograph records.…

Discusses the importance of maintaining the accuracy and currency of the information in an online library catalog; examines aspects of online catalog maintenance that can be accomplished cooperatively, through networks, or automatically, by computer programs; and describes procedures followed at Washington State University that utilize the Western…