Feature Articles
ISAD Ad Hoc Committee Reports(p.127)
- Report of the Committee on Objectives (p.128-132)
- Report of the Committee on Research Topics (p.133-138)
- Report of the Committee on Seminar and Institute Topics (p.139-144)
Corporate Author Entry Records Retrieved
by Use of Derived Truncated Search Keys (p.156-161)
ALAN L. LANDGRAF, KUNJ B. RASTOGI, AND PHILIP L. LONG
An experiment was conducted to design a corporate author index to a large bibliographic file. The nature of corporate entries necessitates a different search key construction from that of personal names or titles. Derivation of a search key to select distinct corporate entry records is discussed.
Grant Project Information via a Shared
Data Base (p.162-166)
JUSTINE ROBERTS
A quarterly keyword index to campus grant projects is provided by the Health Science Library at the University of California, San Francisco, using a data base created and maintained by the campus' Contracts & Grants Office. The index is printed in KWOC format, using the chief investigator's name as the key to a section of project summaries. A third section is also included, listing the summaries under the name of the sponsoring department.
The Minnesota Union List of Serials (p.167-181)
AUDREY N. GROSCH
This paper describes development of a MARC serials format union catalog of serials called the Minnesota Union List of Serials (MULS). The Preliminary Edition, published August 1972, contains over 37,000 main entries in 1,566 text pages produced through photocomposition in News Gothic type-font using the full MARC character set. The total number of entries is over 59,000, including cross-references. Conceptualization and scope of the system as well as its design, data conversion, computer and programming support, photocomposition, costs, and problems are discussed.