Showing papers in "College & Research Libraries in 1967"
TL;DR: In his pre-search interview with an information-seeker the reference librarian attempts to help him arrive at an understanding of his “compromised” need by determining the subject of his interest and the relationship of the inquiry to file organization.
Abstract: Seekers of information in libraries either go through a librarian intermediary or they help themselves. When they go through librarians they must develop their questions through four levels of need, referred to here as the visceral, conscious, formalized, and compromised needs. In his pre-search interview with an information-seeker the reference librarian attempts to help him arrive at an understanding of his “compromised” need by determining: (1) the subject of his interest; (2) his motivation; (3) his personal characteristics; (4) the relationship of the inquiry to file organization; and (5) anticipated answers. The author contends that research is needed into the techniques of conducting this negotiation between the user and the reference librarian.
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TL;DR: A device is outlined to help formulate the annual book budget request and results are sound estimates of each departments probable current domestic book needs for that year and may be applied to the subsequent year as an estimate of what will probably be needed.
Abstract: A device is outlined to help formulate the annual book budget request. Courses described in the college catalog are matched with the books listed in the American Book Publishing Record, BPR, Cumulative 1965. Courses, treated as if monographs, are assigned Dewey classification numbers and arranged in decimal sequence by groups. Books in BPR falling into the groups are tallied; the DC groups are then rearranged by departments and the number and cost of books in each are totaled. Results are sound estimates of each departments probable current domestic book needs for that year and may be applied to the subsequent year as an estimate of what will probably be needed. They may be used as factors in an allocation formula.
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TL;DR: A survey was made to determine the amount and methods of book selection within the library~ and results of that survey are reported.
Abstract: Historically~ most academic libraries have depended upon the faculty for the selection of library materials. Faculty representatives~ appointed to deal with the library~ made or approved necessary selection for a particular department of instruction. However~ for one reason or another~ most academic libraries have in more recent years felt the need to supplement the endeavors of the faculty through the use within the library of bibliographers and subject specialists responsible for book selection. A survey was made to determine the amount and methods of book selection within the library~ and results of that survey are reported.
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TL;DR: Experimental use of machines in teaching library usage to patrons indicated that students who utilized the machines used the library more efficiently and sought services from staff members less frequently than students who did not utilize them.
Abstract: The library at Mt. San Antonio College has experimented with the use of machines in teaching library usage to patrons. Five Videosonic machines were programed to teach general information on the library and to give instruction in the use of periodical indexes and of card catalogs. Controlled study indicated that students who utilized the machines used the library more efficiently and sought services from staff members less frequently than students who did not utilize them. Despite several mechanical limitations, increased use of teaching machines for this purpose is indicated.
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TL;DR: The relative advantages and disadvantages discussed are of the remote storage of lesser-used materials in research libraries.
Abstract: The relative advantages and disadvantages discussed are of the remote storage of lesser-used materials in research libraries. Valid decisions on what to store can only be based upon comparing cost of storage with the value of having the same materials at hand. Considerations for such determinations are raised, and formulas are proposed. Several assumptions are made, and appropriate alternatives are delineated.
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TL;DR: The method envisages a class-by-class conversion and printing out in main entry order of the shelflist of the Library of Congress to become a kind of national union catalog in machine readable form.
Abstract: This paper describes in very general terms a strategy for converting the retrospective catalogs of the nation's research libraries into machine readable form. The method envisages a class-by-class conversion and printing out in main entry order of the shelflist of the Library of Congress. The larger libraries would compare their shelflists against these lists adding their location symbols and unique titles to the master machine record and pulling from the master record machine readable catalog copy for their own holdings in each class. The resulting augmented LC master record would become a kind of national union catalog in machine readable form.
TL;DR: Efforts to gain systematic control of the entire range of biological and agricultural literature are reviewed, and an efficient network of biological-agricultural libraries is being developed to serve the science communities in those fields.
Abstract: Efforts to gain systematic control of the entire range of biological and agricultural literature are reviewed. In view of the need manifest therein, an efficient network of biological-agricultural libraries is being developed to serve the science communities in those fields. M ED LARS is already operational, and N AL is now developing a network in the bio-agricultural fields. Problems in the way of its satisfactory establishment are discussed, and the elements of such a system are enumerated.
TL;DR: The pros and cons of reclassification are reviewed, the primary factors governing the desirability of re classification are discussed, and the merits of partial re classification are presented as an alternative to total reclassifying.
Abstract: Interest in reclassification and recataloging has revived with the development of a national acquisitions and cataloging program. The paper reviews the pros and cons of reclassification and examines three common assumptions concerning reclassification. The primary factors governing the desirability of reclassification are discussed, such as size, age, organization of the collection, etc. Finally, the merits of partial reclassification are presented as an alternative to total reclassification.
TL;DR: The discussion consists of three parts: the inherent inadequacies of biomedical bibliographic services to fill the need of an individual for current awareness; the magnitude and cost of a modest personal information system; and the potential supportive participation of the science library in the teaching and research activities of members of the university community.
Abstract: The meaningful discharge of academic duties requires the effective use of up-to-date factual and conceptual knowledge. The wealth of the material available and its perishable character necessitate an expeditious procedure for information sampling, storing, and retrieving at the individual level. The feasibility of such a procedure, administered by the science library, is explored. The discussion consists of three parts: The inherent inadequacies of biomedical bibliographic services to fill the need of an individual for current awareness; the magnitude and cost of a modest personal information system; and the potential supportive participation of the science library in the teaching and research activities of members of the university community.
TL;DR: This is a brief presentation of the problems (bibliographical) that are present or toill occur due to the changing nomenclature of African States, cities and their organs of government.
Abstract: This is a brief presentation of the problems (bibliographical) that are present or toill occur due to the changing nomenclature of African States, cities and their organs of government. T HE RAPID POLITICAL developments and changes in African countries are having an effect on bibliography that will be of concern to the research scholar as he moves from retrospective to current bibliography and finds countries and their materials being variously recorded. At the national level the scholar will find the former colonial areas represented by one or more names as they progress from the control of the metropolitan powers. Some of these variations are well known · and have been in common usage long enough to present no problems. German East Africa and Tanganyika, Portuguese East Africa and Mozambique, Tripoli and Libya, even the Gold Coast and Ghana are well known. Newer are the two Congos, that are now distinguished by their respective capitals and were, of course, previously the Congo Free State, later Belgian Congo; and the Middle Congo. One of the real problem areas is, and will be, the Rhodesias, especially since Southern Rhodesia's choice of new name is identical with the commonly used subject heading entry for material on this area of former British Africa. In subject bibliographies the terms \"north-em\" and \"southern\" in the Rhodesias and N yasala. nd, as well as \"Central African Federation,\" \"Zambia,\" \"Rhodesia,\" and Miss Herrick is Assistant Director for Bibliographic Organization, Boston University Libraries. \"Malawi\" all may be used to refer to areas as well as political divisions, depending on the period covered in the bibliography and the date it was printed. The short-lived amalgamation of Egypt and Syria created the term United Arab Republic. Egypt continues to use this in its official publications thereby continuing two names under which subject material and official publications may be expected to be found listed. The same problem occurs with Tanzania; in retrospective bibliographies the two names Tanganyika and Zanzibar are used, and material on the separate areas of these two countries will probably continue to be recorded under the two names while the official name Tanzania will also be used. Material on Basutoland, Bechuana-land, and Swaziland can be found listed under their former designation of \"High Commission Territories\" as well as each colony having its separate designation, and now material is appearing under Bechuanaland' s new name, Botswana, and Basutoland' s new designation …
TL;DR: Information services not usually provided by academic libraries were offered at Florida State University for a year and a half to a group of scientists as part of a study of personal indexes.
Abstract: The improvement of information services to scientists in academic libraries, though a desirable obfective, will not by itself make the library the important information source that librarians would like it to be. A step toward this goal is the identification and testing of additional information services that the academic library might provide. Information services not usually provided by academic libraries were offered at Florida State University for a year and a half to a group of scientists as part of a study of personal indexes. More such studies are needed in planning future academic library service.
TL;DR: The authors ranged management data from eighty-six selected funior college libraries on a graded percentile chart and plotted the experience of seven «benchmark" institutions on the chart in order to portray their characteristics graphically and comparably.
Abstract: In an effort to delineate an experimental set of quantitative standards for evaluating funior college library service, the authors ranged management data from eighty-six selected funior college libraries on a graded percentile chart. They then plotted the experience of seven «benchmark\" institutions on the chart in order to portray their characteristics graphically and comparably. It is their intention to continue developing data on these seven institutions in hope of generating quantitative norms that can be used for evaluative purposes.