Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue: A Medical Model of the Costs of Participation by Specialized Collections

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Library-use instruction is seen by most librarians in Britain and the United States as an essential component of an academic library's overall operation, with the expressed or implied aim of enabling students to achieve maximum utilization of library resources and services. Having passed through a long history of cyclical popularity dating back to before the turn of the century, library instruction enjoyed a period of renewed popularity in the early seventies. Presently many writers believe that academic libraries are failing in their function of facilitating access to stored knowledge. The challenge of educating library users, however, has generated a multiplicity of instructional approaches in both nations. These approaches include handbooks, leaflets on specific resources, specialized bibliographies, audiovisual presentations, orientation tours, and informal courses; the slide/tape presentation is one of the more popular types of media used. Sixty references are cited. Qualifred Citation Indexing: Its Relevance to Education Technology. By E. B. Duncan and others. Aberdeen University Teaching Centre; Robert Gordon's Inst. of Technology, Aberdeen, Scotland. Sponsored by the Scottish Inst. of Adult Education, Edinburgh. 1981. llp. ED 207 567. MF$0.83; PC-$1.82. Citation indexing, which matches linked articles through links with authors rather than through subject-keyword matching, is particularly relevant to educational technology, a widely spread subject with a special user group of varying interests, difficult to cover in one retrieval service, and whose terminology is often ambiguous. By including links from lists of references, very large databases are created, some of whose links may be misleading. Qualified citation indexing seeks to refine the output by including terms to describe the context of the reference that are mutually exclusive and unambiguous. The Scottish Education Department Qualified Citation Indexing Project is setting up a citation database with linked references from citing to cited work, the links qualified by using a list of relational or descriptive terms compiled from previous studies and from the suggestions of users. Retrieval will be tested and modifications will be built in from feedback thus acquired, and a prototype index will be presented. A major part of the work will be the identification of key authors and key papers, and estimates will be made of both computing and indexing costs. FLC/FEDLINK AACR2 Cataloging Manual for Federal Libraries. By ArnoldS. Wajenberg. Federal Library Committee, Washington, D.C. Federal Library and Information Network. 1981. 169p. ED 207 542. MF -$0.83; PC-$10.82. Intended as a guide for federal-agency libraries in the application of the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and not to supersede them, the emphasis in this manual is on material and problems likely to be encountered by catalogers in the area of descriptive cataloging; it ~lso includes the most recent Library of Congress rule interpretations at the time of publication. Following an introductory section, the main body of the manual is arranged according to AACR2 rule number with discussions and example applications to specific cases. Each example refers to the appendix, which contains photocopies of title· pages and other sections of books, serials, etc. Complete cataloging, with and without MARC coding, is given for each title and is cited whenever that title is used to illustrate a rule. A number of typographic conventions are included to assist the user. In-Service Training Program for Library Paraprofessionals: A Report. By Donna R. Bafundo. Consortium for Continuing Higher Education in Northern Virginia, Fairfax; George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia, Div. of Continuing Education. Virginia State Library, Richmond. 1981. 213p. ED 207 536. MF -$0.83; PC-$13.82. This is the final report of an in-service training We will supply any available titles from any publisher, government agency or non-profit organization from anywhere in the world. In addition, BSI provides: Continuation and standing orders , out-of-print book search, paperback to hardbound conversion , responsive rush order department and on-line order capacity via UTLAS . Service & Dependability BSI inventories books from more than 200 publishing houses . Outstanding orders for new technical , scientific and medical books alone add up to an inventory of over 10,000 titles . And our database includes over 25 ,000 publishing sources. BSI's fill rate on current material averages better than 92% . 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