Describes the experience of Georgia State University in producing a newspaper index. (PF)

Making and using needle-sort cards fosters logical thinking, facilitates accumulation of factual knowledge in geography and can be applied students at any grade level. (JH)

Discusses processing manuscript collections. (Author)

The original problem of the Special Collections division of the Michigan State University Library (MSU) was to establish a direction for the comic book section of the popular culture collection, and to state the holdings in the chosen area. The comics chosen as the target collection were the superhero comics of the 1960's through 1975, as this was…

This text provides a complete discussion of abstracts--their history, production, organization, publication--and of indexing. Instructions for abstracting are outlined, and standards and criteria for abstracting are stated. Management, automation, and personnel are discussed in terms of possible economies that can be derived from the introduction…

A LISTING OF RETRIEVAL TERMS FOR DOCUMENTS IN MUSIC IS PRESENTED IN THIS EXPERIMENTAL THESAURUS. INCLUDED IN THE LISTING ARE "USE" ENTRIES WHICH DIRECT THE THESAURUS USER TO PREFERRED TERMS. (SEE ED 010 298.) (GC)

Sets on microform probably account for most failures of local bibliographic control within libraries. (Author)

Introduces a novel order statistic, the "adapted Gini index," and relates it to the conventional form of Bradford's law. An alternative index of dispersion is suggested based on the relative entropy of the frequency distribution. A variety of experimental data is reported. (VT)

Considers the question of the utility of a book indexing computer program for those without computer background or experience. APL time-sharing systems seem well adapted to support a simple, "portable," and relatively inexpensive system to operate for this purpose. (Author)

This analysis of Zipf's law uses an index for the sequence of observed values of the variables in a Zipf-type relationship. Three important properties relating rank, count, and frequency are identified, shapes of Zipf-type curves are described, and parameters of the Mandelbrot-Zipf law are discussed. (Author/LRW)

Farradane's relational indexing appeared applicable to the scientific area of the properties of metals and gave good results with a greater depth of indexing. (Author/PF)

An experimental procedure for indexing physical materials based on simple syntactical rules was tested by encoding the materials in the journal, Applied Physics Letters,'' to produce a materials index. The syntax and numerous examples together with an indication of the method by which retrieval can be effected are presented. (5 references)…

The criticisms made against chain indexing are reviewed, and PRECIS briefly considered as a possible (but improbable) general substitute for indexing. The failures of chain indexing arise mainly from an overemphasis on generic relationships. The use of symbols to represent relations between terms is suggested for the chain index. (80 references)…

The results of a survey of computer techniques used in producing printed subject indexes are summarized in this paper. The survey was primarily concerned with collecting details of operational and available index generation software and particular emphasis was given to United Kingdom systems. (14 references) (Author)