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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)
BOX 122 "LITA Award to Henriette D. Avram," LITA Newsletter, no. 3, fall 1980, o. 1 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 "Avram Receives Award, (1980) LITA Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology," Information Retrieval & Library Automation, v. 16, no. 4, September 1980, p. 4 (entire issue included)
BOX 122 Cartoon from New Yorker (?) with picture of Mrs. Avram pasted on and modified caption: "She's busy now, Doctor. Can you come back later?"
BOX 122 "Professor Wins Librarian Award," (Henriette Avram— Melville Dewey Award) Envoy (Catholic University of America), v. 10, no. 1, September 1981, p. 12 (also includes letter from Elizabeth Stone, Dean, School of Library and Information Science)
BOX 122 "Looking Backward, 1984-1959: Twenty-Five Years of Library Automation—A Personal View," (Irwin H. Pizer) Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, v. 72, no. 4, October 1984, p. 335-348. Reprint (p. 340 mentions Mrs. Avram and effort at LC)
BOX 122 "Alternative Methods for Transmitting Machine- Readable Bibliographic Data: A Feasibility Study. Preliminary edition. Limited Distribution." (Submitted to Chairmen, Subcommittees on Legislative Branch Appropriations, Committees on Appropriations, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. Prepared by Library of Congress Network Development Office, December 1979) 217 p.
BOX 122 "The Library of Congress. Part 1. Looking Back," (Eugene Garfield, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia) Current Comments, no. 9, February 26, 1979, p. 5-13 (mentions MARC Project, Mrs. Avram); "The Library of Congress. Part 2. The Librarian," Current Comments, no. 10. March 5, 1979, p. 5-12 (mentions Mrs. Avram as head of Network Development Office)
BOX 122 "LC Faces Difficult Game in Networking," (Judith C. Russell. Copy of article appearing in computer newspaper in late 1970s?)
BOX 122 (Conference program) Society of Women Engineers. 22nd National Convention, June 22-25, 1972, Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Mass. Friday, June 23, "Applications of Computers to a Large Library," Henriette D. Avram (includes biographical information)
BOX 122 Letter from Maryan Reynolds, State Librarian, Washington State, January 2, 1973, on first book catalog produced from MARC records in Washington State
BOX 122 (#64): "The Governance of Library Networks: A Call for Action," (Henriette D. Avram) In "The Structure and Governance of Library Networks; Proceedings of the 1978 Conference in Pittsburgh ... Co- Sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and University of Pittsburgh," (New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1979) p. 221-228. Reprint.
BOX 122 "Avram and Kilgour Receive ACRL Academic/Research Librarian Award," College & Research Libraries News, no. 7, July/Aug. 1979, p. 205
BOX 122 "A Monolog on Dialog," (column "On Language," by William Safire. Appeared in Sunday magazine, New York Times, date unknown. Makes reference to lack of hyphens in "Cataloging in Publication," no "u" in "cataloguing," etc.)
BOX 122 (Program) "Two Millionth MARC Books Record" Observance, February 5, 1985, 10:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m. Whittall Pavilion (held by MARC Editorial Division)
BOX 122 "Some Highlights of MUMS," (major milestones from late 1970 to mid-1978, compiled mid-1978?) 1 sheet
BOX 123 "Pilot Project: Washington Library Network Resource Directory (book catalogs generated from LC MARC and WLN input records through Sept. 30, 1972)
BOX 123 Register
BOX 123 Titles
BOX 123 Authors
BOX 123 Subjects
BOX 123 Information on detailed holdings and circulation (1975— 76) (memos, draft reports, sample screen displays)
BOX 123 Washington Library Network
BOX 123 (Issues of WLN newsletter, "The Participant," 1976; reprints of journal articles and other miscellaneous documents describing system)
BOX 123 (Folder/packet with inserts, e.g., sample fiche, printed cards, printouts, descriptions of various components)
BOX 123 (Miscellaneous items)
BOX 123 Envelope addressed "To the Mama of M.A.R.C. (Mrs. Avram), with greeting card signed by staff of Washington State Library (a MARC Pilot Project participant)
BOX 123 (Avram bibliography, papers numbered #48-60) Handwritten
BOX 123 "Draft. Processing Department Automation," (revised Oct. 8, 1974) 2 sheets (in chart form)
BOX 123 "Announcing Cataloging Without Publishing (CWP)" + photograph of pseudo-MARC record (printed card)
BOX 123 "Publications," (September 1971. Part of Avram bibliography?)
BOX 123 "Henriette D. Avram," (written by Josephine S. Pulsifer for Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging & Classification) Library Resources & Technical Services, v. 15, no. 4, fall 1971, p. 525-531
BOX 123 "Frederick Kilgour, Henriette Avram Named Academic Research Librarians of the Year," The Harvard Librarian, v. 13, no. 5, October 1979, p. 1
BOX 123 "Objectives (of the MARC Development Office)," (Feb. 14, 1975) 7 p.
BOX 123 Review appearing in Journal of Documentation, v. 28, no. 2, June 1972, of Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 6, 1971
BOX 123 Articles appearing in Library of Congress Information Bulletin
BOX 123 Announcement of award (to Mrs. Avram) as Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, Association of College and Research Libraries, October 5, 1979, p. 417
BOX 123 "Henriette Avram Named to New Processing Services Position," September 5, 1980, p. 337
BOX 123 "Henriette Avram Is Named Assistant Librarian for Processing Services," November 21, 1983, p. 398-399
BOX 123 "MARC Books, Authorities Files Contain 2,750,000 Records," January 23, 1984, p. 15-16
BOX 123 (Staff news?) Picture of Mrs. Avram presenting 25- year awards to staff, November 19, 1984.
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