Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 14 Issue 4

On costing alternative patterns for COM‐fiche catalogues

M. King

An algebraic model relating catalogue costs to the numbers of existing titles, new titles and titles processed is developed. The number of titles processed is then related to the…

University of London Union List of Serials

L. Rodgers

This article first describes the circumstances which brought about the Union List of Serials project — the effect on collections of increasingly inadequate funds and the need for…

Teaching about computers and library automation in Schools of Librarianship and Information Science: a comparative survey

John Eyre

Beginning with a detailed analysis of 24 published surveys and programmes of library and information science curricula from 1969–1975, the article discusses the professional…