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BOX 122-123 Josephine S. Pulsifer
Office and personal files from the late Josephine S. Pulsifer, who, in addition to being a staff member of the MARC Development Office and the Automation Planning and Liaison Office, had worked for the Washington State Library at the time of the MARC Pilot Project and later for a consultant in the Washington area. Most of the items consist of background material for the first edition of a MARC history and the publications collected for a bibliography of works written by Henriette D. Avram.
BOX 122 Publications—MARC: Its History and Implications ("Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) Program," by Henriette D. Avram, photocopy of p. 380-413 from Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, v. 16, Marcel Dekker, Inc.)
BOX 122 Miscellaneous reprints/copies (articles on retrospective conversion, OCLC, other bibliographic utilities, standards, British MARC conversion, CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean), US MARC format for holdings and locations)
BOX 122 Bowker Annual (reprints of articles appearing in Bowker publication—"Library Networking in the United States, 1980," by Henriette D. Avram; "Library Networking in the United States," 1982, 1983 by Glyn T. Evans; "Networking in 1984," Glyn T. Evans; "Information Standards in 1984," Sally H. McCallum)
BOX 122 HDA (Henriette D. Avram) papers
BOX 122 (Annotated bibliography, notes for updating "Toward a Nationwide Library Network," by Henriette D. Avram, Journal of Library Automation, v. 11, no. 4, p. 285-298, Dec. 1978)
BOX 122 "Automation and Cooperative Activities at the Library of Congress," (Henriette D. Avram. Paper presented at Conference of Field Directors of Overseas Offices, New Delhi, March 1985?)
BOX 122 "Network-Level Decisions: Basis and Key Issues," (Henriette D. Avram. Reprint from "Information Technology: Critical Choices for Library Decisions-Makers," edited by Allen Kent and Thomas J. Galvin, Marcel Dekker, 1982, p. 157- 167)
BOX 122 "Directions in Library Networking," (Henriette D. Avram and Sally H. McCallum) Journal of the American Society for Information Science. November 1980, p. 438-444. Entire issue included
BOX 122 "Evolution of Authority Control for a National Network," (Sally McCallum) Galleys of paper presented at authority control workshop; with corrections
BOX 122 "Barriers: Facing the Problems," (Henriette D. Avram. Paper prepared for the Association of Research Libraries Program on Bibliographic Control, Chapel Hill, N.C., October 20, 1983) 15 p. Typescript
BOX 122 "Overview The Impact of Technology on Libraries," (Henriette D. Avram) unpaged
BOX 122 "Information Technology: Critical Choices for Library Decision-Makers. Chapter 15: Network-Level Decisions: Basis and Key Issues," (Henriette D. Avram. New York and Basel, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1982) p. 157-167. Reprint
BOX 122 MARC History (Update)—Bibliography (1984?)
BOX 122 References/Bibliography (miscellaneous items, including copies of articles; notes; copies of bibliographies from articles, pertinent pages from Library Literature of categories, e.g., automation of library processes, catalogs—automation, surveys- -MARC Project (U.K.), networks of libraries, Online Computer Library Center)
BOX 122 (Draft—cut and paste version, with handwritten notes)
BOX 122 General reports
BOX 122 Correspondence—MARC: Its History (Update) (1983- 84)
BOX 122 Organizational changes
BOX 122 "Sally McCallum Is Appointed Head of Network Development and MARC Standards Office," Library of Congress Information Bulletin, April 8, 1985
BOX 122 "Chronology of Organizational Changes," (handwritten notes, covering period April 1976- 1983)
BOX 122 MARC Development Office—Annual reports
BOX 122 Subject Cataloging Division, 1982/83
BOX 122 Office of the Director for Processing Systems, Networks and Automation Planning, 1980/81
BOX 122 Network Development Office, 1978/79, 1976/77
BOX 122 MARC Development Office, 1975/76, 1974/75 (the latter with memo to William J. Welsh from Henriette D. Avram, forwarded to Messrs. Lorenz and Berry)
BOX 122 MARBI (1981-84?) (miscellaneous documents, notes, reprints, reports on reorganization of MARBI and its relationship with LC, networks, Association of Research Libraries, etc.)
BOX 122 (Miscellaneous reports and documents)
BOX 122 "BLIS: Biblio-Techniques Library and Information System," (Curtis W. Stucki) Library Hi Tech, v. 3, no. 3, 1985, p. 73-84
BOX 122 MARC data base—Serials (handwritten notes about inclusion of atlases in CONSER)
BOX 122 "Development of an Automated National Data Base on Serials in Science and Technology; Final Technical Report," (National Science Foundation, 1978)
BOX 122 "CONSER (CONversion of SERials): What It Is and How It Works," (by Barrie A.F. Burns, National Library of Canada. IFLA Section on Serials Publications, Montreal, August 25, 1982)
BOX 122 "Cataloging Records Processed through Cooperative Cataloging Programs (NACO)" (statistics for FY 1978-FY 1984? as of 11/8/84) Also handwritten update as of 5/24/85 for Harvard, Univ. of Chicago, National Library of Medicine, Govt. Print. Off.)
BOX 122 "RLIN System: A Conceptual Overview," (September 1984) 10 p.
BOX 122 Northwestern (University) Africana Project
BOX 122 "Progress Report, Dec. 31, 1979," (prepared by Janet Swan Hill. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and the Carnegie Corp.) 15 p. Also includes several appendixes as listed below:
BOX 122 Appendix A: "Specifications for the Northwestern Africana Project," 9 p.
BOX 122 Appendix B: News release
BOX 122 Appendix C: Statistical report—Searching LC manual card files
BOX 122 Appendix D: "Joint Acquisitions List of Africana," v. 19, no. 1, January 1980 (sample issue produced from MARC records)
BOX 122 Appendix E: Ads from G.K. Hall (3 p.)
BOX 122 Appendix F: "Africana Bibliographic Records Available on Tape," (announcement from LC Cataloging Distribution Service, April 1979) 2 p.
BOX 122 Appendix G: "LC, Three University Libraries Agree on Name Authority Cooperation," LCIB, Feb. 15, 1980, p. 53
BOX 122 Appendix H: Excerpt, p. 34-36, from 'Initial Considerations for a Nationwide Data Base," (prepared by Edwin J. Buchinski. Issued as Network Planning Paper No. 3, 1978)
BOX 122 Africana Project—Year end statistics (from contractor doing the searching)
BOX 122 Contractor's progress report, evaluation (covers 1978)
BOX 122 "Specifications for the Northwestern Africana Project," (3rd draft, May 8, 1978) 20 p. + 1 copy revised and corrected
BOX 122 (HDA Papers—Henriette D. Avram; copies of publications included, some reproduced from journal or publication, others consisting of actual publication or journal issue or reprints)
BOX 122 Bibliography (2 copies—1 copy typescript, 1 copy annotated with numbers assigned)
BOX 122 #1.1965: "A Proposed Format for a Standardized Machine-Readable Catalog Record," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Ruth S. Freitag, Kay D. Guiles. Washington: Library of Congress, 1965)' 110 p. + appendix. Issued as ISS Planning Memorandum No. 3
BOX 122 #2.1965: "The Philosophy behind the Proposed Format for a Library of Congress Machine-Readable Record, " (Henriette D. Avram. In "Information Retrieval with Special References to the Biomedical Sciences; Papers Presented ... Second Institute on Information Retrieval, University of Minnesota, November 10-13, 1965) p. 155-174.
BOX 122 #3.1967: "Library Automation and Project MARC: An Experiment in the Distribution of Machine- Readable Cataloging Data," (Henriette D. Avram and Barbara Evans Markuson. In "Brasenose Conference on the Automation of Libraries: Proceedings of the Anglo-American Conference on the Mechanization of Library Services, 1966, Oxford." Mansell, 1967) p. 97-127
BOX 122 #3: Japanese translation of above, appeared in Gendai no Toshokan, v. 6, no. 2, 1968 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #4.1967: "Fields of Information of Library of Congress Catalog Cards: Analysis of a Random Sample, 1950-1964," (Henriette D. Avram, Kay D. Guiles, Guthrie T. Meade) Library Quarterly, v. 37, April 1967, p. 180-192
BOX 122 #5: Missing?
BOX 122 #6: "The MARC Project of the Library of Congress," (Henriette D. Avram) Drexel Library Quarterly, v. 4, October 1968, p. 279-309
BOX 122 #7: "The MARC II Format: A Communications Format for Bibliographic Data," (Henriette D. Avram, John F. Knapp, Lucia J. Rather. Washington: Library of Congress Information Systems Office, 1968) 167 p.
BOX 122 #8: "MARC: The First Two Years," (Henriette D. Avram) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 12, summer 1968, p. 245-250. Reprint
BOX 122 #9: "MARC Is a Four-Letter Word ..." (Henriette D. Avram) Library Journal, v. 93, July 1968, p. 2601- 2605. Pages cut from journal
BOX 122 #9a: Japanese translation of above, appeared in Gendai no Toshokan, v. 7, 1969, no. 6, p. 85-90
BOX 122 #10: Missing?
BOX 122 #11: "MARC II and COBOL," (Henriette D. Avram and Julius R. Droz) Journal of Library Automation, v. 1, December 1968, p. 261-272. Reprint?
BOX 122 #12: Missing?
BOX 122 #13: "Using Computer Technology—Frustrations Abound," (Henriette D. Avram) In "AFIPS Conference Proceedings, v. 34, 1969. Spring Joint Computer Conference, May 14-16, 1969," p. 42-45. (Copy of typescript submitted for publication)
BOX 122 #14: "USA Standard for a Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape (draft)," (United States of America Standards Institute, Sectional Committee Z39 (Library Work and Documentation), Subcommittee on Machine Input Records) Journal of Library Automation, v. 2, June 1969, p. 53-95. Reprint?
BOX 122 #15: "Implications of Project MARC," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Library Automation: A State of the Art Review," (Preconference Institute on Library Automation, San Francisco, 1967) p. 79-89. Pages cut from publication?
BOX 122 #16: "MARC Program Research and Development: A Progress Report," (Henriette D. Avram and others) Journal of Library Automation, v. 2, December 1969, p. 242-265. Reprint?
BOX 122 #17: Missing?
BOX 122 #18: "Bibliographic and Technical Problems in Implementing a National Library Network," (Henriette D. Avram) Library Trends, v. 18, April 1970, p. 487-502. Reprint
BOX 122 #19: "Automation and the Library of Congress: 1970," (Paul R. Reimers, Henriette D. Avram) Datamation, v. 16, June 1970, p. 138-143 (entire issue included
BOX 122 #20: "The RECON Pilot Project: A Progress Report," (Henriette D. Avram) Journal of Library Automation, v. 3, June 1970, p. 102-114. Reprint?
BOX 122 #21: Missing?
BOX 122 #22: "The National Scene," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Network Concepts: Four Points of View. Proceedings of the April 1, 1970 Meeting of the College and University Libraries Section, Catholic Library Association, Boston ...," p. 22-30 (entire publication included)
BOX 122 #23: "The RECON Pilot Project: A Progress Report, November 1969-April 1970," (Henriette D. Avram and others) Journal of Library Automation, v. 3, September 1970, p. 230-251. Reprint?
BOX 122 #24: "Bibliographic Services for a National Network," (Henriette D. Avram and Josephine S. Pulsifer) In "Proceedings of the Conference on Interlibrary Communications and Information Networks," (Chicago, American Library Association, 1971) p. 92-100
BOX 122 #25: "RECON Pilot Project: A Progress Report, April- September 1970," (Henriette D. Avram and Lenore S. Maruyama) Journal of Library Automation, v. 4, March 1971, p. 38-51. Reprint?
BOX 122 #26: "Library Automation," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 6, p. 171-217. Reprint
BOX 122 #27: "RECON Pilot Project: A Progress Report, October 1970-May 1971," (Henriette D. Avram and Lenore S. Maruyama) Journal of Library Automation, v. 4, September 1971, p. 159-169 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #28: "The Evolving MARC System: The Concept of a Data Utility," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Proceedings of the 1970 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: MARC Uses and Users," (Urbana, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1971) p. 1-26 (1st proof, i.e., galleys?)
BOX 122 #29a: "The Identification of Data Elements in Machine-Readable Bibliographic Records," (Henriette D. Avram, Ann T. Curran) In "The Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information, 1970," p. 68-70
BOX 122 #29b: Missing?
BOX 122 #29c: Missing?
BOX 122 #29d: "New Developments in an Information Interchange of Data Elements in Machine-Readable Form for Bibliographic Data," (Henriette D. Avram, Ann T. Curran) In "The Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information, 1971," p. 104- 196
BOX 122 #30: "A Plan for the Systematic Automation of Technical Processing in the Library of Congress," (Henriette D. Avram, John C. Rather, Harry Gochman, MARC Development Office, October 1971. Revised December 1971) 16 p.
BOX 122 #31: "Automation Activities in the Processing Department of the Library of Congress," (Henriette D. Avram, Lenore S. Maruyama, John C. Rather) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 16, spring 1972, p. 195-239 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #32: "Library Automation: A Balanced View," (Henriette D. Avram, Ellsworth Mason) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 16, winter 1972, p. 11-18 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #33: "Cataloging and the Computer," (Lenore S. Maruyama, Henriette D. Avram) Fontis Artis Musicae, v. 19, Sept./Dec. 1972, p. 164-171. Reprint
BOX 122 #34: "Content Designators for Machine-Readable Records: A Working Paper," (Henriette D. Avram. Kay D. Guiles) Journal of Library Automation, v. 5. December 1972, p. 207-216. 2 copies. Reprint?
BOX 122 #35: (Review of) Jeffreys, A.E., ed. "Conversion of the Catalogue into Machine Readable Form," (Henriette D. Avram) Library Quarterly, v. 43, October 1973, p. 409-410 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #36: "Sharing Machine-Readable Bibliographic Data: A Progress Report on a Series of Meetings Sponsored by the Council on Library Resources," (Henriette D. Avram) Library of Congress Information Bulletin, v. 33, January 11, 1974, p. A21-A23; Journal of Library Automation, v. 7, March 1974, p. 47-60 (photocopy of typescript submitted for publication?)
BOX 122 #37: "The Library of Congress View on Its Relationship to the ALA MARC Advisory Committee," (Henriette D. Avram) Library of Congress Information Bulletin, v. 33, March 1, 1974, p. A60- A64; Journal of Library Automation, v. 7, June 1974, D. 119-126 (copy included cut from LCIB)
BOX 122 #38: "Principles of Format Design," (Henriette D. Avram, Lucia J. Rather) Journal of Library Automation, v. 7, September 1974, p. 161-167
BOX 122 #39: "IFLA Working Group on Content Designators: Report from Its Chairman," (Henriette D. Avram) Translation into German (text same as #41a and # 41 b; published in ABT-Informationen, v. 16, Dec. 15, 1974, p. 6-16
BOX 122 #40: "Objectives (of the MARC Development Office)," (Feb. 14, 1975) 7 p.
BOX 122 #41a: "IFLA Working Group on Content Designators: Report from Its Chairman," (Henriette D. Avram) International Cataloging, v. 4, Jan./March 1975, p. 3-6 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #41b: Photocopy of typescript of #41a
BOX 122 #42: "Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) Program," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science," v. 16, p. 380- 413 (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1975) Reprint?
BOX 122 #43: "International Standards for the Interchange of Bibliographic Records in Machine-Readable Form," (Henriette D. Avram) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 20, winter 1976, p. 25-35. 2 copies (entire issue + reprint)
BOX 122 #44: Missing?
BOX 122 #45: Translation into Spanish of #42. Published by Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City
BOX 122 #46: "Computer Network Protocol Task Force Meets." (Henriette D. Avram) Library of Congress Information Bulletin, v. 36, October 29, 1976, p. 669-671 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #47: "Standards for Bibliographical Character Sets," (Henriette D. Avram) GCCA (Graphic Communications Computer Association) Journal, v. 1, November 1976, p. 5-11 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #48: "The COMARC Project: A Progress Report, November 1974-March 1975," (Henriette D. Avram. Submitted to the Council on Library Resources, April 10, 1975) 1 v. (various pagings)
BOX 122 #49-50: "The National Bibliographic System," (Henriette D. Avram) In "The Library of Congress as the National Bibliographic Center; Report of a Program Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, October 16, 1975," (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, February 1976), p. 35-48
BOX 122 #51: "1975-76 Library Science Forum Series ... Department of Library Science, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana," (March 23, 1976, program only. Paper by Henriette D. Avram, "Library Automation," not included)
BOX 122 #52: "The Library of Congress: Toward the 21st Century; A Reexamination and Redirection," (Henriette D. Avram. Prepared for presentation at the Conference on Dynamics of Federal Information: A Bicentennial Update, Chicago, July 18, 1976) 13 p. (Photocopy of typescript)
BOX 122 #53: "Online Cooperation: RLG/LC," (Henriette D. Avram) SIG Newsletter LAN-4 (American Society for Information Science, Special Interest Group on Library Automation and Networks), September 1976, p. 1-2 (Typescript, 2 p., of text submitted for publication)
BOX 122 #54: "An Introduction to LC," (Henriette D. Avram. Prepared for presentation to the ASIS/LC Institute, San Francisco, October 4, 1976) 7 p. (Typescript: corrections noted)
BOX 122 #55: "LC and Its Role in the Evolving National Network," (Henriette D. Avram. Prepared for presentation at ASIS/LC Institute, San Francisco, October 4, 1976) 12 p. (Typescript, with handwritten corrections)
BOX 122 #56: "Library of Congress—National and International Automation Activities," (lecture given to National Diet Library (Japan) staff members, October 14, 1976, by Henriette D. Avram ...) 9 p. (Reproduced copy of typescript; original transcription of speech with handwritten corrections, and correspondence)
BOX 122 #56a: Translation into Japanese of #56, by Shojiro Maruyama. Published in Biblos (National Diet Library, Division for Interlibrary Services), v. 28, no. 1, January 1977, p. 1-10 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #57: "Production, Dissemination, and Use of Bibliographic Data and Summary of the Conference," (Henriette D. Avram) In "Prospects for Change in Bibliographic Control; Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School," Library Quarterly, v. 47, no. 3, July 1977, p. 347-369 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #58: "The Next Generation of CONSER," (Henriette D. Avram and Richard Venable) American Libraries, v. 8, January 1977, p. 23-26 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 #59: "The Role of the Library of Congress in the National Bibliographic Network," (Henriette D. Avram) Journal of Library Automation, v. 10, June 1977, p. 154-162 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 (HDA papers—Unnumbered; numbers added in parentheses if publication also listed in bibliography)
BOX 122 (#60): "State of the Art: Toward a Nationwide Library Network," (Henriette D. Avram. Prepared for presentation at Information Science and Automation Division State of the Art III Institute, 1978) 32 p. + appendixes (Published in Journal of Library Automation, v. 11, December 1978, p. 285- 298)
BOX 122 (#61): "Network of Networks," (Henriette D. Avram. Prepared for presentation at session of IFLA Committee on Mechanization, Antwerp, September 3, 1977. Contents based on presentation at the Conference on Telecommunications, Technology, Networking, and Libraries, National Bureau of Standards, June 3, 1977) 12 p.
BOX 122 "The Impact of Automation on Library Science," (Henriette D. Avram. Unpublished, circa 1972) 11 p. Typescript
BOX 122 "Boorstin Shakes the LC Administrative Tree," Wilson Library Bulletin, v. 50, no. 8, 1976? p. 620 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 (#62): "Research and Research Libraries: The View from the Library of Congress," (Henriette D. Avram. Paper presented at Association of Southeastern Research Libraries conference, Blacksburg, Va., March 30-31, 1978) 12 p.
BOX 122 "Effect of National Networking on Catalog Management Decision," (Henriette D. Avram, 1977?) 22 p.
BOX 122 "Avram at Columbia: ’Turf Problem’ Still Hampers Cooperation," LJ/SLJ Hotline, v. 9, no. 13, March 31, 1980, p. 1-2 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 "Taming the Information Monster," (Diane Granat) Panorama (magazine), The Sunday Herald, Arlington Heights, 111., February 22, 1981, p. 4-7 (entire issue included; cover story about Library of Congress)
BOX 122 (#63): "Electronics and Cataloguing, Twenty Years Later,” (Henriette D. Avram, Sally H. McCallum) International Cataloguing, v. 10, no. 1, Jan./March 1981, p. 8-10 (entire issue included)
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