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Henriette D. Avram MARC development collection, 1964-1989

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Network Development and MARC Standards Office (continued)
BOX 110 "No. 7, 1982: Document Delivery—Background Papers Commissioned by the Network Advisory Committee." (Also "blues")
BOX 110 "No. 6, 1980: National Union Catalog Experience: Implications for Network Planning." (Also 1 printed copy, and pages removed because of errors)
BOX 110 "No. 5, 1979: Study of Message Text Formats: Bibliographic Search Queries"
BOX 110 "No. 4, 1978: Message Delivery Systems for the National Library and Information Service Network: General Requirements." (Also 1 printed copy)
BOX 110 "No. 3, 1978: Initial Considerations for a Nationwide Data Base." (Also 1 printed copy)
BOX 110 "No. 3, 1978:----Buchinski illustrations"
BOX 110 "No. 2, 1978: A Glossary for Library Networking"
BOX 110 "No. 1, 1978: A Nationwide Location Data Base and Service." (Also 1 photocopy)
BOX 110 Original network planning document—"The Library Bibliographic Component of the National Library and Information Service Network," (prepared by the Library of Congress Network Advisory Group. Edited by Henriette D. Avram and Lenore S. Maruyama, March 1977) 89 p. Typescript; also typescript of memo to Readers ...
BOX 110 Committees
BOX 110 Research Libraries Group
BOX 110 1978 (also 1977?) (memos, correspondence, notes, progress reports, copies of articles from journals, other documents)
BOX 110 1979-1980 (similar contents as previous year; also "Final Report on the RLG/LC Pilot Cataloging Project: Establishment of Library Network On- Line Access to the Library of Congress MARC Data Base," by Peter S. Graham ... Dec. 31, 1978. NEH Grant RC-25397-76-1150. 78 p.)
BOX 110 NCLIS/NBS Task Force on Computer Network Protocol (1976-77?) (memos, correspondence, minutes of meetings, other documents)
BOX 110 Library Committee (composed of representatives of foundations, prominent persons in library field, and granting agencies, i.e., CLR and NEH, to develop integrated efforts in library projects) (minutes of meetings, 1978; other miscellaneous documents; draft and letter written for Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin)
BOX 110 Federal Library Committee (1979-80) (reports, notices of meetings, other miscellaneous items; also "The Federal Library and Information Network: FEDLINK Overview," May 1980. 31 p. + appendixes)
BOX 110 Committee on Organization for Development and Application of Automated Systems (LC) (1975-76) (memos, papers, notes, copies of related articles; also copy of "Library of Congress Information Resources and Services: A Report Prepared for the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Computers, Committee on House Administration, U.S. House of Representatives," by CRS Task Force ..., September 1975, 56 p. + appendixes)
BOX 110 Council for Computerized Library Networks (memos, correspondence, minutes, reports, other documents)
BOX 110 1978
BOX 110 1979
BOX 110 Buckland (Lawrence F.—Contract) (Correspondence, memos, notes, progress reports, work statements, survey forms, other documents; draft, annotated version of final report)
BOX 110 "The Role of the Library of Congress in the Emerging National Network: A Report of a Study and Survey ..." (prepared by Lawrence F. Buckland and William L. Basinski, Inforonics, Inc., Maynard, Mass., Nov. 28, 1976)
BOX 111 NTAG (Network Technical Architecture Group) master File (of documents) '78
BOX 111 78-1, 8/29/78: Network Technical Architecture Group participants
BOX 111 78-2, 1/25/78: Meeting of Feb. 6-7, 1978 (memo)
BOX 111 78-3, 2/2/78: Agenda ... for Feb. 6-7, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-4, 2/3/78: "Standards for Consideration for National Network," 15 p.
BOX 111 78-5, 2/6/78: "Communication Networks," 1 p.
BOX 111 78-6: Working paper "Pricing Policy Issues for Network Services"
BOX 111 78-7: "Study and Preparation of Message Text Formats for NTAG," by Philip L. Long)
BOX 111 78-8, 5/17/78: Minutes of the Feb. 6-7, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-9: Draft of cover memo to accompany "Message Delivery System ..." and "Methodology for Estimation of Operating Costs"
BOX 111 77-9 (i.e., 78-9?): "Message Delivery System for the National Library and Information Service Network: General Requirements," April 1978, 32 p. (draft 4/5/78)
BOX 111 78-10, 2/3/78: "A Methodology for Network System Development," 6 p.
BOX 111 78-11: Memo ... Meeting of April 17-18, 1978
BOX 111 78-12: Tentative agenda ... April 17-18, 1978
BOX 111 78-13: Network planning diagram
BOX 111 78-14: Protocol implementation plan final report (outline)
BOX 111 78-15: (OCLC) Support of NTAG with Machine Resource (internal OCLC memo)
BOX 111 78-16: Survey of responses to bibliographic queries, 2 p.
BOX 111 78-17: Minutes of the April 17-18, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-18: "Detailed Requirements for the Message Delivery System for the National Library and Information Service Network: A Proposal to the Council on Library Resources"
BOX 111 78-19: Tentative agenda ... June 12, 1978 (2 copies), and (memo) ... meeting of June 12, 1978
BOX 111 78-20: Minutes of the June 12, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-21: "Final Draft. Final Report to the Library of Congress Network Development Office on a Computer-to-Computer Communications Protocol for the National Library and Information Service Network," August 2, 1978, Protocol Implementation Planners, N.Y. Public Library
BOX 111 78-22: 'EURONET Guideline: Standard Commands for Retrieval Systems," Dec. 1977, 66 p.
BOX 111 78-23: Tentative agenda ... Aug. 21-22, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-24: Network project description
BOX 111 78-25: "The National Library Network ... Governance," (OCLC memo) and "Governance Principles ...," 5 p.
BOX 111 78-26: Meeting effectiveness enhancement techniques
BOX 111 78-27: "Seventh Draft. Proposed American National Standard for Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures (ADCCP)," BSR X3.66 X3S34- 589, 14 Dec. 1977
BOX 111 78-28: Logon procedure for NTAG and "Xerox 560 and Sigma 6/7/9 Computers ... Reference Manual"
BOX 111 78-29: Table (various system retrieval search algorithms?)
BOX 111 78-30: Minutes of the Aug. 21, 1978 meeting
BOX 111 78-31, 8/31/78: "Request for Contract Action. Preparation of Requirements for Initial Participation in the National Library and Information Service Network"
BOX 111 78-32, 10/13/78: Agenda for ... meeting, Oct. 23, 1978 (and) Memo
BOX 111 78-34, 10/23/78: "Study of Bibliographic Search Responses"
BOX 111 78-35. AT&T Petition to FCC for Advanced Communication Service (ACS)"
BOX 111 78-36: ("Draft—Data Base Configuration Project?")
BOX 111 78-37, 11/7/78: Minutes of the October 23 1978 meeting
BOX 111 NTAG '78 masters (typescripts) (78-0, 78-1, 78-19, 78-3, 78-2, 78-4, 78-9, 78-5, 78-13, 78-31)
BOX 111 (Miscellaneous NTAG documents)
BOX 111 NBS Technical Note 882: "Criteria for the Performance Evaluation of Data Communications Services for Computer Networks"
BOX 111 NTAG 78-9 (memos, attachments, general requirements with annotations)
BOX 111 Data base design project
BOX 111 Task 22, Statistics (1978-80) (memos, progress reports, correspondence; copy of "Library of Congress Authority File Statistics Report, 11/20/80?— printout reduced in size)
BOX 111 Task 5, Simulations (1978-80) (memos, correspondence, papers, reports—several from Univ. of Pittsburgh where work was going on)
BOX 111 Task 7, NUC/Vondran (Authorities—Phase II) (memos, correspondence, drafts of report, other documents, charts showing results of sample from NUC contributors, arranged by language and other characteristics)
BOX 111 Task 8, Retrospective Data/Buchinski (memos, correspondence, "British Columbia Union Catalog Study ... Working Paper No. 1, Sept. 1978" (sampling of entries from OCLC, BALLOTS UTLAS)
BOX 111 Task 9, Series (Authorities) (memos, correspondence; draft of "Series Data. Discussion Paper on the Incorporation of Series Authority and Treatment Data in the MARC Format," March 16, 1979, 6 p.)
BOX 111 DBDP—Project proposal (Phase II) ("Proposal for Funds to Develop Data Base Configuration for National Library System," August 1977, typescript; LCIB article, correspondence, notes, earlier drafts of proposal, memos; also comments from various organizations on proposal)
BOX 111 DBDP—CLR May 1979 meeting (memo, correspondence, notes, unedited transcript of meeting)
BOX 111 DBDP—Project data (Phase II) (1977-78) (various reports, papers, memos, correspondence, notes; reports, questionnaires from Task Force on Quality of Shared Cataloging in Computer-Based Networks (ARL); "RLG Survey of Bibliographic Practices: Final Report," February 1977; other miscellaneous documents)
BOX 111 DBDP General (1978-79) (LC press releases, memos, correspondence, progress reports, other documents)
BOX 111 DBDP—Initial considerations, Buchinski (memos, correspondence, other materials; also annotated draft with comments of "The Role of Authorities in a National Library Network: A Proposed Methodology prepared by Edwin Buchinski, May 1977)
BOX 111 DBDP MIC'L (i.e., Miscellaneous?) (1978-79?) (miscellaneous reports, notes, papers on NUC, e.g.: "Review of the National Union Catalog Publication Project ..." by David Smith; "The National Union Catalog: Past, Present and Future," by Gloria H. Tsia, typescript; "Retrospective Bibliographic Data: Its Integration into a Nationwide Union Catalog," by Edwin J. Buchinski, Oct. 1979, typescript; "Subtask 8.5: Report on the Rate, Volume, and Nature of Revisions to LC Name Authority Records," by Susan Biebel; "Subtask 22.1: Authority File Statistics Requirements," August 1978, typescript; "Subtask 22.4a: Report from File of Unique Short Headings," typescript; "Task 8: Retrospective Data in Network Data Base: Working Paper," May 12, 1978)
BOX 111 Questionnaire ("Library of Congress Questionnaire on U.S. Library Practices with Respect to Authority Control," Auerbach, Philadelphia—correspondence to and from respondents and contractor)
BOX 111 Questionnaire (code book, correspondence, keypunch instructions; sample population)
BOX 111 (Library of Congress Data Collection Survey, Calculon, formerly Auerbach Associates; prepared by Joseph G. Costello, Martha Cornog, Nov. 6. 1978)
BOX 111 "Final Report"
BOX 111 "Cross-Tabulations"
BOX 111 "Non-Respondent Characterization Report," Jan 1979
BOX 111 LC authorities (1975-79) (miscellaneous reports, specifications, memos)
BOX 111 "Research Report on Subject Heading Patterns in OCLC Monographic Records," (by Edward T. O'Neill, Rao Aluri, OCLC, Aug. 1, 1979) 85 p.
BOX 111 DBDP—Task 11, Subject headings (Authorities—Phase II) (1979-82) (memos, correspondence, notes, other documents; also correspondence, reports from Africana Project, Northwestern University Library—verifying name, subject, series headings in LC Official Catalog; work on a subject cataloger manual)
BOX 111 Buchinski I & II (proposals for data base studies, notes, correspondence, draft reports)
BOX 112 International MARC data bases—Latin America (memos, correspondence, reports, miscellaneous documents, notes)
BOX 112 1977-1981
BOX 112 1976
BOX 112 1973-1976
BOX 112 "Canadian National Bibliographic Data Base Study"
BOX 112 Annex A: "Software and File Organization Sub-Study," (William L. Newman, Richard G. Smith ... National Library of Canada, March 1974) 64 p.
BOX 112 Annex B: "Model Outline of a Canadian Union Catalogue EDP System," (Revett A. Eldred, Digital Methods Limited, Ottawa, February 1974)
BOX 112 Annex C: "Canadian On-Line Cataloguing Service Model," (Ralph E. Harrison, National Library of Canada, March 1974) 32 p.
BOX 112 Annex D: "Pattern of Use in Canada of Canadian MARC, Foreign MARC and ISDS Records," (S.E. Chappie, National Library of Canada, March 1974) 26 p.
BOX 112 Annex F: "Canadian National Union Catalogue: Projected Volumes of Accession Reports, Titles Reported and Location Requests 1974-78," (Roderick M. Duchesne, Gerard V. Ippersiel, National Library of Canada, March 1974)
BOX 112 Annex G: "Comparison of MARC Monographic Formats: Canadian, U.S., U.K., and InterMARC (Roderick M. Duchesne, Gerard V. Ippersiel, National Library of Canada, March 1974) 53 p.
BOX 112 Annex H: "France and Sweden: Plans for the Development of National Bibliographic EDP Networks," (Roderick M. Duchesne, National Library of Canada, March 1974) 26 p.
BOX 112 (U.K. MARC/British Library—British National Bibliography, MERLIN or Machine Readable Library Information, 1969-79) (reprints, notes, miscellaneous documents, reports, correspondence)
BOX 112 (U.K. MARC documentation—Council of the British National Bibliography)
BOX 112 "Description of the BNB/MARC Record: A Manual of Practice," (Michael Gorman, John E. Linford, 1971) 67 p.
BOX 112 "INPUT: A Generalised IBM 360 MARC File Handling System," (J.T. Heath and Colin Townsend, 1971) 99 p.
BOX 112 "MARC II Specifications (March 1969)," (B.N.B. MARC Documentation Service Publications No. 2, April 1969) 52 p.
BOX 112 "MARC Record Service Proposals ..." (B.N.B. MARC Documentation Service Publications No. 1, July 1968) preprint?
BOX 112 "B.N.B. MARC Record Service ..." (January 1968)
BOX 112 "MARC Specifications (March 1969)," (B.N.B. MARC Documentation Service Publications No. 2) preprint? annotated
BOX 112 "MARC Record Service Proposals ..." (B.N.B. MARC Documentation Service Publications No. 1, July 1968)
BOX 112 (Preprints (?) of B.N.B. MARC Documentation Service Publications No. 1, 2, in soft binder)
BOX 112 (Miscellaneous documents, including chart comparing LC and U.K. MARC)
BOX 112 "MARC II Format," (U.K. MARC, 1969?) 47 p.
BOX 112 "Proposal for New Diploma Programmes in Librarianship and Archives Administration," (University of New South Wales (Australia), School of Librarianship, 18 June 1980) 34 p.
BOX 112 "Newcastle upon Tyne University Library—Stock Record System," (A.D. Robins, A.E. Jeffreys) 5 p.
BOX 113 (Linked Authority Systems Project—Joint project with Washington Library Network, Research Libraries Group, Library of Congress)
BOX 113 Phase I—1st quarter report (Master): "General Description of the Project: Authorities," (July 11, 1980); "Organization and Communication: Coordination Plan," (July 8, 1980); "MARC Authority Record Format Review," (July 9, 1980); memo sent to CLR— signed by Henriette D. Avram, Edward Shaw, Roderick Swartz, June 19, 1980
BOX 113 Phase I—2nd quarter report (Master): "Characteristics of Current Authority Data Files," (Oct. 31, 1980); submittal letter to Henriette D. Avram from Ray DeBuse, Tina Kass, Lucia Rather (Oct. 21, 1980); "MARC Authority Record Format Review: Background Material," (Oct. 31, 1980); "Comments on the National Level Authority Record (NLAR) (Draft of March 198)" (Oct. 31, 1980); submittal letter to CLR from Robert Payne, John Heyeck, Henriette Avram (Oct. 31, 1980)
BOX 113 Phase I—3rd quarter report (Master): "Search and Response Facilities: WLN, RLG, and LC," (Feb. 1981, typescripts) including "Search and Response Facilities: WLN Authority File," "Indexing and Searching in the RLIN Authorities Data Management Subsystem," and "LC Search and Response Facilities: Name Authority Records" (also 2nd copy of p. 1-18); submittal letter to CLR from Robert Payne, John Heyeck, Henriette D. Avram (not signed, Feb. 27, 1981); "Library of Congress Automated Authority Control System: Overview (February 1981); "Authorities Subsystem External Design. Part A: Online Authority Data Management; Working Paper," (RLIN, Feb. 3, 1981); (Data Dictionary, RLIN Authorities Subsystem ? 1/30/81); "Authorities Subsystem External Design. Part B: Batch Authority Data Management and Output Generation; Working Paper," (RLIN, 2/3/81); "Requirements for Record Content: NLAR and LASP," (Feb. 27, 1981); "MARC Authority Record Format Review: '$w' Control Subfield," (Feb. 26, 1981, originally issued Dec. 4, 1980)
BOX 113 Phase I—4th quarter report and Final report on Phase I (Master): Submittal letter to CLR from Robert D. Payne, John Heyeck, Henriette D. Avram (March 31, 1981, typescript and Xerox copy); "Overview of LASP Phase I: Authorities Group," (March 31, 1981); "LASP Documents List: Authorities Group," (March 27, 1981); "Task List and Associated Gantt Charts," (March 31, 1981); "LASP Functional Specifications: Intersystem Component," (March 31, 1981, typescript and Xerox copy)
BOX 113 Phase II—Introductory letter, etc. (Master): Submittal letter from Robert D. Payne, John Heyeck, Henriette Avram (March 24, 1981); "Organization and Communication: Coordination Plan for Phase II (March 14, 1981; 4 copies, at least one may be earlier version, some annotations); "Task List," (March 13, 1981)
BOX 113 Phase II—1st quarter report (Master): "Uniqueness of Headings: Comparison of WLN/RLIN/LC Normalization Rules," (Aug. 31, 1981; 2 copies, 1 marked "OLD"); "LASP Functional Specifications: Intersystem Component," (Aug. 31, 1981); transmittal letter from Raymond DeBuse, John Heyeck, Henriette D. Avram (Aug. 31, 1981); "Comparison of Components and Hierarchical Relationships of Authority Headings in WLN, RLIN, and LC," (Aug. 31, 1981); handwritten memo to members (of Authorities Group?)
BOX 113 Phase II—2nd quarter report (Master): (Project name changed to Linked Systems Project) Transmittal letter from Raymond DeBuse, John Heyeck, Henriette D. Avram (Dec. 4, 1981); "LSP Functional Specifications: WLN System Component," (November 1981); "LSP Functional Specifications: LC System Component," (October 1981); "LSP Functional Specifications: RLG System Component," (November 1981, typescript)
BOX 113 Phase II—3rd quarter report (Master): Transmittal letter from Raymond DeBuse, John Heyeck, Henriette D. Avram (March 4, 1982, 2 copies); "LSP External Design: Intersystem Component," (Feb. 26, 1982; typescript and Xerox copy)
BOX 113 Phase II—4th quarter report and Final report for project: "RLIN Authorities Subsystem: Functional Specification and External Design," (Aug. 31, 1982; typescript and transmittal letter from RLG); "LSP External Design: Intersystem Component," (Feb. 26, 1982, revised Aug. 27, 1982; typescript); "WLN/RLG/LC Linked Systems Project. Authorities Release 5.0: Requirements (LC)" (August 1982); transmittal letter to CLR from Ray DeBuse, Tina Kass, Henriette Avram (Aug. 31, 1982, 3 copies); "Overview of LASP Phase II: Authorities Group," (Aug. 31, 1982); "Overview of LASP Phase I: Authorities Group," (March 31, 1981); "Task List: Authorities Group," (Aug. 31, 1982); "LASP Documents List: Authorities Group," (Aug. 5, 1982); "LSP External Design: WLN System Component," (September 1982, 2 copies)
BOX 113 RLIN/WLN/LC link—Project 1 (1979-80) (correspondence, memos, notes, other documents)
BOX 113 LASP/NAFS (Name Authority File Service) reconciliation (1981?) (correspondence, memos, notes, reports, other documents)
BOX 113 LASP (1982?) (bubble charts for structured analysis; notes, other miscellaneous documents)
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