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Automated Systems Office, Office of the Information Systems Specialist, and Information Systems Office (continued)
Information Systems Office (continued)
BOX 103 LOCATE automation (1969-70) (memos, project status reports, other documents)
BOX 103 (Serials/NSDP/NST/CONSER, 1977?) (materials from Processing Dept, divisions, including Cataloging Distribution Service, handed out during orientation?)
BOX 103 "Functional Requirements Determined during the MARC On-Line Feasibility Study," (Task 1 Report TR-221-1, Computation Planning, Inc., Bethesda, Md., 1969?)
BOX 103 "Report of Human Factors Analysis of Current Model of Cassette Book Machine Produced for DBPH," (Q.E.I., Inc., Bedford, Mass., Feb. 22, 1974. Q.E.I. Report 4132) p. 83-93
BOX 103 "On-Line MARC System Specification and Implementation Plan," (by F.E. Toroey, C.R. Eubank, Bunker-Ramo Corp., McLean, Va., Jan. 5, 1908. Contract # G-0525)
BOX 103 "Problems of Recording Text Information in Machine Form for Use in a Scientific Information Communication Network," (prepared by Lawrence F. Buckland, Inforonics, Maynard, Mass. Report on work ... National Science Foundation Contract 371. May 24, 1966) 42 p.
BOX 103 "Evaluating the Legislative Documentation System, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress," (prepared by McKinsey & Co., Jan. 1977)
BOX 103 "Generalized Statistical Program: Operating Procedures," (Programming Sciences Corp., 1969?)
BOX 103 "Report of a Pilot Project for Converting the Pre-1952 National Union Catalog to a Machine Readable Record," (sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. Prepared by Federal System Div., IBM, Rockville, Md., July 1, 1965) 52 p. + appendixes
BOX 103 "A Proposal to Establish a Pilot Project for Converting the National Union Catalog," (submitted by Federal Systems Div., IBM, to Council on' Library Resources, Sept. 1964)
BOX 103 "Information Processing for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: A Feasibility Study," (prepared by Subcommittee on Computer Services, Committee on Rules and Administration ... for use of the Committee on Rules and Administration, Nov. 7, 1972) 128 p. + appendixes
BOX 103 "Study of Decision Factors in Planning DBPH Audio Services," (by J.W. Kuipers and R.W. Thorpe, Q.E.I., Inc., Bedford, Mass. Prepared for Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Jan. 31, 1974. Q.E.I. Report 4131) 84 p.
BOX 103 "Final Report. Design of an Automated Library Information Storage and Retrieval System for Library of Congress Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped ..." (Systems Architects, Inc., Randolph, Mass., June 30, 1975. Contract no. LC-1099) 1 v. (various pagings)
BOX 103 "MARC On-Line Feasibility Study," (Computation Planning, Inc., Bethesda, Md.)
BOX 103 "Task 2 Report (TR-221-2): Survey of Small-Scale On-Line Systems," (Dec. 29, 19è9) 1 v.
BOX 103 "Task 3 Report (TR-221-3): Analysis and Evaluation of Results," (Dec. 29, 1969) 1 v.
BOX 103 "Final Report (TR-221-4)" (Jan. 23, 1970) 1 v.
BOX 103 "Technical Proposal (P70-11): MARC Distribution Service System," (Computation Planning, Inc Bethesda, Md., Apr. 13, 1970) 43 p.
BOX 103 "Design Study of Text-Access Facilities for the Library of Congress," (by J. Francis Reintjes, Donald R. Knudson, Electronic Systems Laboratory M.I.T.) 57 p. + appendixes
BOX 103 Preliminary issue (label pasted on cover, ESL-FR- 705 Dec. 15, 1976)
BOX 103 (Published version) (ESL-FR-705, Dec. 1976)
BOX 103 "A Full-Text Image Transmission System for the Library of Congress. Unsolicited Proposal ..." (M.I.T., Electronic Systems Laboratory, Cambridge Mass., Feb. 4, 1977) 17 p.
BOX 103 "Design of Text-Delivery Facilities. Unsolicited Proposal ..." (Electronic Systems Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15, 1977) 13 p.
BOX 103 "System Controller for the LC/MIT Text-Access System, (by Donald R. Knudson, Electronic Systems Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., Aug 31, 1978. ESL-R-841) 27 p.
BOX 103 "A Research Program on an Electronic Document- Delivery System for Interlibrary Loans. Unsolicited Proposal ..." (M.I.T., Electronic Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 15, 1978) 1st revision, 21 p.
BOX 103 "Review of Automation Programs in the Three National Libraries: Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, National Library of Medicine," (U.S. National Libraries Task Force on Automation and Other Cooperative Services (Meeting) ... July 7, 1970. Prepared by Marlene Morrisey ... July 28, 1970) 14 p.
BOX 103 "Computer-Output-Microfilm for the Library of Congress: Analysis and Report," (by J.B. Malcolm, B. Doudnikoff ... Dataflow Systems, Inc., Bethesda, Md., May 30, 1975. Letter Agreement A75-77) 18 p.
BOX 103 "Optical Disk Based Image Preservation and Retrieval System. Pilot Projects for Print and Non-Print Materials," (Library of Congress Request for Proposal, Apr. 12, 1982) 2 copies
BOX 103 "On-Line MARC System Feasibility Study," (by F.E. Torpey, C.R. Eubank. Prepared by Bunker-Ramo Corp., McLean, Va., Aug. 31, 1967. Contract no. G- 0525) and "Summary of Input Costs Using the ATS Terminal to Enter Bibliographic Citations into a Data Base in the MARC Format"
BOX 103 "Cataloging and the Computer," (by Lenore S. Maruyama, Henriette D. Avram) Fontes Artis Musicae, Heft 3, 1972, p. 164-171. Reprints. 7 copies
BOX 103 "Design Specifications for a Generalized Statistical Program," (Coyle and Stewart, May 24, 1968) Typescript and original flowcharts
BOX 103 "Library Bibliographic Information Service: University of Toronto Pilot I System: Overview Documentation," (Coyle and Stewart, August 1967) 1 v. (various pagings)
BOX 103 "Analysis of Hardware and Software Considerations for a Central Bibliographic Service," (prepared for the Information Systems Office, Library of Congress (by) Coyle and Stewart ... Jan. 20, 1969) 43 p. Typescript and original flowcharts
BOX 103 Extended MARC System Study," (Coyle and Stewart Jan. 2, 1970) 82 p.
BOX 103 "An NUC Reporting Format in Machine Readable Form," (by David L. Weisbrod. Prepared for MARC Development Office ... Sept. 30, 1975. Contract no. A75-84)
BOX 103 "An Evaluation of the Structure of the MARC Exchange Record Format," (prepared for Information Systems Office by Coyle and Stewart, May 26, 1967) 28 p. Typescript
BOX 103 (Rmg Survey Narrative Reports, mostly fall 1961) Also List of Divisions Covered by Interview and Cost Analysis-King Survey," (20 divisions covered)
BOX 104 "The MARC Pilot Experience: An Informal Summary " (Information Systems Office, Library of Congress June 1968) 15 p.
BOX 104 "A Cost Analysis of an Automated System for the Library of Congress," (prepared for ... by Herbert T. Spiro, Allan D. Kotin, Planning Research Corp Aug. 1, 1962. PRC R-267) 163 p.
BOX 104 A Feasibility Study for a Joint Computer Center for Five Washington, D.C. University Libraries: Final Report," (by Dr. Ralph Parker ... Consortium of Universities of Metropolitan Washington D C May 1968) 37 p.
BOX 104 L.C. MARC Statistics: An Analysis of English Language Monographic Publications Cataloged by the Library of Congress. Cumulated Statistics for v. 2, no. 1-52, March 1970-March 1971 " (pv Gerald L. Swanson, Systems Office, Columbia University Libraries, November 1971. Technical Note no. 12) 45 p. Also "Fields of Information on Library of Congress Catalog Cards: Analysis of a Random Sample, 1950-1964," (by Henriette D. Avram, Kay D. Guiles, and Guthrie T. Meade) Library Quarterly, v. 37, no. 2, April 1967, p. 180-192
BOX 104 "MARC User Survey, 1972," (MARC Development Office, Library of Congress, 1972) 58 p. (Edited slightly)
BOX 104 "MARC User Survey, 1972. Final Report ..." (by Josephine S. Pulsifer, Becker & Hayes, Inc., Los Angeles, August 1972) 65 p.
BOX 104 (Expanded Library Character Set. Revised October 21, 1970) 8 copies, (taken from Appendix B, Books: A MARC Format?) Also "Automation Support Key Persons: Research Services, March 17, 1980," 5 p. (list actually includes all departments)
BOX 104 "MEDLINE Reference Manual," (MEDLARS Management Section, Bibliographic Services Division, National Library of Medicine, September 1973. PB-222-991. Reproduced by National Technical Information Service) 215 p.
BOX 104 Development of Language Analysis Procedures with Application to Automatic Indexing," (by Carol Elizabeth Young, Computer and Information Science Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, April 1973. Grant no. 534.1 National Science Foundation, OSU-CISRC-TR-73-2. PB-227- 088. Distributed by National Technical Information Service) 298 p.
BOX 104 "Data Characterization and Compression," (by E.K. Miller, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Prepared for U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, July 6, 1977 Contract no. W-7405-Eng.-48 UCID-17511) 22 p.
BOX 104 "Multi-Sample Error Protection Modulation Study. Final Technical Report," (prepared by CNR, Inc.,' Newton, Mass., for Rome Air Development Center] Griffiss AFB, New York, May 1976. RADC-TR-76- 161) 1 v. (various pagings)
BOX 104 "Bounds on Information Retrieval Efficiency in Static File Structures," (by Terry A. Welch, Project MAC, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., June 1971. MAC TR-88) 164 p.
BOX 104 "Semantics of Data Base Systems," (by Igor Titus Hawryszkiewycz, Project MAC, M.I.T.’, Dec. 1973. MAC TR-112) 349 p.
BOX 104 Automation surveys
BOX 104 SLA/ALA survey (1966-67) (memos, forms, correspondence, other documents including copy of unpublished report of study performed with grant from Council on Library Resources)
BOX 104 Other miscellaneous surveys (early 1960s-1967) (forms, final reports, correspondence, reprints, reviews)
BOX 104 Publications
BOX 104 "Cumulated MARC Statistics through March 1975: An Analysis of Certain Characteristics of MARC Records. Operational Document," (by Susan C. Biebel and Dolores C. Munson, Technical Processes Research Office, June 1976) 120 p.
BOX 104 "MARC Planning Paper(s)" (MARC Development Office)
BOX 104 "No. 1: A Plan for the Systematic Automation of Technical Processing in the Library of Congress," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, John C. Rather, Harry Gochman, Oct. 1971) 18 p.
BOX 104 "No. 2: The LC Core Bibliographic System: Project Status Report," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Susan C. Biebel, Harry Gochman, James Graber, John C. Rather, Aug. 30, 1973) 28 p.
BOX 104 "No. 3: The LC Core Bibliographic System: Project Status Report No. 2," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Susan C. Biebel, Harry Gochman, James S. Graber, John C. Rather, May 1974) 7 p.
BOX 104 "No. 4: An Approach toward a National Bibliographic Service," (by Henriette D. Avram, July 1974) 1 v. Typescript
BOX 104 "No. 5: Proposed Plan for Initial External On-Line Services," (prepared by J.S. Graber, 1974?) 5 p. Typescript
BOX 104 "No. 6: Searching Requirements for a Machine- Readable Data Base," (For the Record Memo by Lucia J. Rather, Feb. 1, 1973) Typescript, with some handwritten revisions
BOX 104 "Draft: Processing Department Automation (Projects)" (Revised, Oct. 8, 1974) 2 p. (charts)
BOX 104 "Working Paper for Library of Congress Contract LC- 1770 EDSF/CGI: Information Assimilation Task, January 26, 1979," (documentation of current automation environment in all departments, future support requirements in FY 1979-84 timeframe- for five-year plan for computer automation, EDS Federal Corp./Cap Gemini, Inc.) 1 v. (various pagings)
BOX 104 "Automation and the Library of Congress. Survey Sponsored by the Council on Library Resources," (submitted by Gilbert W. King, et. al., Washington, Library of Congress, 1963) 88 p.
BOX 105 Core bibliographic system (1970-74) (memos, reports, notes, other miscellaneous documents)
BOX 105 DMS (data management support)
BOX 105 Subject headings
BOX 105 Book catalogs
BOX 105 Search keys
BOX 105 MUMS milestones—Response time
BOX 105 Publications
BOX 105 "ISS Planning Memorandum No. 3: A Proposed Format for a Standardized Machine-Readable Catalog Record. Preliminary Draft," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Ruth S. Freitag, Kay D. Guiles, Office of the Information Systems Specialist, June 1965. Reprinted with index and appendix, 1971) 110 p. + 22 p. appendix. Typescript?
BOX 105 "The MARC Retriever Search Service of the Library of Congress," (1976?) 4 p.
BOX 105 "MARC: Its History and Implications," (by Henriette D. Avram. Washington, Library of Congress, 1975) 49 p. 3 copies. (Based on article "Machine- Readable Cataloging (MARC) Program," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, v. 17, 1975?)
BOX 105 "MARC User Survey, 1972," (MARC Development Office, Library of Congress, 1972) 58 p.
BOX 105 "Requirements for the Library of Congress Online Bibliographic Processing System," (prepared by Philip Long ... October 1975. Contract A75-44) 53 p.
BOX 105 "Project MARC: An Experiment in Automating Library of Congress Catalog Data," (Information Systems Office, Library of Congress, June 1967) 17 p.
BOX 105 "Revised List of Languages and Language Codes ..." (revised May 1977, input on-line ATS. Prepared by Patricia Parker, Lana Thompson, Bibliographic Systems Office ... 1977) 24 p.
BOX 105 "Geographic Area Codes," (revised August 1973. Prepared by MARC Development Office, 1973) 52 p. 2 copies
BOX 105 (MARC Development Office—) "Objectives, Accomplishments through FY 1975, Expectations for FY 1976, Long Term Planning," (Feb. 14, 1975) 7 p. 2 copies
BOX 105 "The LC Core Bibliographic System: Project Status Report," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Susan C. Biebel, Harry Gochman, James Graber, John C. Rather, Aug. 30, 1973. MARC Planning Paper no. 2) 28 p. 2 copies
BOX 105 "The LC Core Bibliographic System: Project Status Report No. 2," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Susan C. Biebel, Harry Gochman, James S. Graber, John C. Rather, May 1974. MARC Planning Paper no. 3) 7 p.
BOX 105 "Library of Congress Automation Activities: Introduction and Overview," (by Samuel S. Snyder July 1966) 6 p.
BOX 105 "Generalized Approach for Evaluating Data Base Organization and Indexing Methods," (Rodolfo Mendiola Clautero, Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., June' 1975. AD-A013 628. Distributed by National Technical Information Service) 52 p.
BOX 105 "The MARC Project of the Library of Congress," (by Henriette D. Avram. Presented at conference (?j, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Sept. 17-20, 1967) 49 p.
BOX 105 "MARC Program Research and Development: A Progress Report," (by Henriette D. Avram, Alan S. Crosby, Jerry G. Pennington, John C. Rather, Lucia J. Rather, and Arlene Whitmer) Journal of Library Automation, v. 2, no. 4, Dec. 1969, p. 242- 265. Copy of article from journal
BOX 105 "Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC): Services and Interfaces," (by Paul R. Reimers. Speech prepared for Veterans Administration Library Conference, March 28-29, 1968, Washington, D.C.) 10 p.
BOX 105 "MARC II and COBOL," (by Henriette D. Avram and Julius R. Droz) Journal of Library Automation, v. 1, no. 4, Dec. 1968, p. 261-272. Entire issue included
BOX 105 "Library of Congress MARC Pilot Project. July Meeting Report," (prepared by United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center (?), July 1966) 21 p. 2 copies
BOX 105 "The MARC Pilot Project. Conference with Participating Libraries, February 25, 1966, Library of Congress," (prepared by United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center. Print version of overhead transparencies?)
BOX 105 "User’s Manual MARC Retriever Program," (by M.P. Casern, MARC Development Office, April 1971) 41 p.
BOX 105 "The Implications of Project MARC," (by Henriette D. Avram. Paper presented to Information Science and Automation Division, American Library Association, San Francisco, June 1967) 13 p. Carbon
BOX 105 "MARC: The First Two Years," (by Henriette D. Avram) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 12, no. 3, summer 1968, p. 245-250. 2 copies. Reprinted as a set with the following articles on other aspects of MARC that appeared in the same issue:
BOX 105 "A Compendium of the MARC System," (by Theodore Edward Leach, p. 250-275)
BOX 105 "Design Considerations for the MARC Magnetic Tape Formats," (by John F. Knapp, p. 275-285)
BOX 105 "Special Characters and Diacritical Marks Used in Roman Alphabets," (by Lucia J. Rather, p. 285- 295)
BOX 105 "An Analysis of Bibliographic Data Conversion Costs," (by P.A. Simmons, p. 296-311)
BOX 105 "The Preparation of MARC Bibliographic Data for Machine Input," (by Patricia E. Parker, p. 311- 319)
BOX 105 "MARC Development," (by Paul R. Reimers. For presentation at American Association of Law Libraries conference, Washington, D.C., June 29, 1970) 24 p. 2 copies (1 carbon, 1 photocopy)
BOX 105 "MARC Is a Four-Letter Word," (by Henriette D. Avram) Library Journal, v. 93, July 1968, p. 2601- 2605. 2 copies (1 cut from journal, 1 photocopy)
BOX 105 "MARC Pilot Project Language Code (Fixed Field)" (Feb. 10, 1967) 5 p. introduction + copies of printouts listing codes:
BOX 105 "Languages by Code," 20 p.
BOX 105 "Languages by Name," 20 p.
BOX 105 "Provisional Place of Publication Code," (Nov. 1968?) 29 p. 2 copies + "Provisional Language Code List," (Nov. 1968?) 5 p.
BOX 105 "MARC Pilot Project Publishers Code (Fixed Field)" (Feb. 10, 1967) 4 p. introduction + copies of printouts listing codes:
BOX 105 "Publisher Listed by Code," 54 p.
BOX 105 "Publisher Listed by Name," 54 p.
BOX 105 "MARC Participating Libraries System Specifications," (prepared for Information Systems Office, Library of Congress, by Merle Garvis, United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center, 1966?)
BOX 105 "Library of Congress MARC Pilot Project Report No. 4. Final Technical Report Describing the MARC Pilot Project," (prepared by United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center, Oct. 1966) 156 p. + appendixes
BOX 105 "MARC Pilot Project City/Country Code (Fixed Field Place of Publication," (Feb. 10, 1967) 2 p. introduction + copies of printouts listing codes:
BOX 105 "Country Listed by Code," 12 p.
BOX 105 "Country Listed by Name," 12 p.
BOX 105 "City Listed by Code," 33 p.
BOX 105 "City Listed by Name," 33 p.
BOX 105 "Filing Arrangement in the Library of Congress Catalogs. Operational Document," (prepared by John C. Rather, Specialist in Technical Processes Research. Provisional version, March 1971) 79 p.
BOX 105 Books: A MARC Format ... 5th edition (MARC Development Office, Library of Congress, 1972) 107 p.
BOX 105 "Internal Specifications for Special Materials," (revised February 1976) 84 p. + 2 inserts, revisions March 24, 1977 and May 3, 1977 + other inserts
BOX 105 "ISS Planning Memorandum No. 3. A Proposed Format for a Standardized Machine-Readable Catalog Record. Preliminary Draft," (prepared by Henriette D. Avram, Ruth S. Freitag, Kay D. Guiles, June 1965) 110 p. + "Supplement No. 1," (Oct. 20, 1965) 22 p.
BOX 105 "Proceedings of the ... Conference on Machine- Readable Catalog Copy ..." (held at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Council on Library Resources)
BOX 105 Second conference, Nov. 22, 1965. 34 p.
BOX 105 Third conference, Feb. 25, 1966. 30 p.
BOX 105 Fourth conference, Dec. 4, 1967. 11 p.
BOX 105 "MARC System Internal Format Specifications," 2nd edition (prepared by Lucinda E. Leonard, Lucia J. Rather, MARC Development Office, November 1970) 25 p. + Figure 1 from "Federal Standard Code for Information Interchange FIPS-1," showing 64- character graphic subset, and graph showing how 7- bit set could not be expanded to 8-bit
BOX 105 "MARC Pilot Project. Final Technical Report: The MARC Pilot System," (prepared for Information Systems Office by United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center, Jan. 31, 1967. SCR 323) 79 p.
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