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The article presents information on oral history records at Columbia University. The Oral History material at Columbia University is housed in Special Collections of Butler Library, room 104, and is available for examination by qualified scholars on the premises only. It may not be reproduced, nor are we permitted, by the terms of agreement made with each donor, to loan the material to other institutions. About one third of the memoirs thus far obtained may not yet be examined by anyone, in most such cases until five years after the death of the authors.

Examines factors that influences the formation of a guide to collection of manuscripts on American Indian available in the library of American Society. Historical background of the library; Forms of printed manuscript guides; Prerequisites of the guide.

Marketing is a pervasive societal activity that goes considerably beyond the selling of toothpaste, soap, and steel. The authors interpret the meaning of marketing for nonbusiness organizations and the nature of marketing functions such as product improvement, pricing, distribution, and communication in such organizations. The question considered is whether traditional marketing principles are transferable to the marketing of organizations, persons, and ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship between Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement and Italian business before the March on Rome in 1922. The General Confederation of Italian Industry was launched in April 1919 and became the most influential organization of business groups in the country. Its founder Ettore Conti, a magnate of the electrical industry, explained that the Confederation was designed to act as a showcase in which industry would display its best men with an eye on their future participation in government. It was said that the Confederation lived by the gospel of economic liberalism, while fascism lived largely by its wits.

This article presents updates on industrial relations as of April 1959. The Institute of Industrial Relations has followed certain well-defined principles in its research program. The Fund for the Republic Inc. will finance studies by labor laws researcher Benjamin Aaron which includes an investigation of the impact of the federal loyalty-security program on the legal status, internal affairs and collective bargaining policies of unions. Irving Bernstein and Paul Bullock plans to publish their study "The Age of Labor: The American Worker From the Twenties to World War II.

The article presents a discussion on the typical political, social, and cultural orientations of chemists, physicists, biologists, and engineers in a sociological concept. Chemists are the most abundant of the scientific professions. It also cites that the engineers are more absorbed in their professional duties and less involved in management and community activities. The physicists include the astronomers, applied mathematicians, and some advanced electrical and electronics engineer. It also cites the various biologist groups.

This section introduces a checklist that provides a comprehensive guide to the provincial newspaper press of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Great Britain from 1893 to 1906. The first problem is to define an ILP newspaper. Newspapers have been included when it is certain that they were published by branches of the ILP or when it is reasonably certain that they were published in the interest of, and with the approval of, the local ILP. The overwhelming majority were published as the official organs of branches, but there are some doubtful cases. Neither the newspapers Pioneer nor the Socialist were actually published by the ILP but in each case the only socialist party or organization advertised in them was the local ILP and in the case of the Socialist, the paper and the local ILP shared the same address. Four were imprinted with the name of specific ILP branches, who had joined the scheme, and it must be assumed that the other two were also published on behalf of the local ILP branch. A number of local ILP newspapers may have escaped attention altogether. Whereas the majority of papers were periodicals, a small number were published for a specific purpose, such as an election, and there may have been many other similar ventures which did not attract the attention of librarians or the editors of other newspapers.

There is a devaluation of antiquarian and other special collections in university and other libraries which needs to be countered. Arguments for the support of such collections in universities and in their libraries are advanced and possible sources of support considered with particular attention to the relevant observations and recommendations of the Parry Report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For the past three years, students and academic staff at Brunei University have been able to make use of videotape for private study by operating self‐replay videotape machines. These videotape machines are now being intensively used both in departmental laboratories as well as the University Library where videotapes are freely available on open shelves, like books. The background to the development of this facility, its effect on the types of videotape materials being made available and being produced, and the practical problems of running a self‐replay facility are examined. The extent to which self‐replay is already being used at Brunei indicates that it will inevitably play a major role in the viewing of educational and instructional videotapes in the future, particularly in the light of the development of the videocassette recorder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Part I. Presents a guideline for teaching British public address in the U.S. Reference sources; Introduction of parliamentary behavior; Variations in teaching methods.

A list of information resources to assist individuals and researchers in locating information about family planning is presented. The number one information resource on the list is the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C. Other materials related to family planning mentioned are "The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology" and "Current Literature in Family Planning."

The article reports on the reference collection album prepared by the textile industry society, Textile Institute. The album consist of samples showing various designs, style and structures of fabrics and is of great help for students who are interested to participate on the institute's annual competition on textile design. The album is available in two set of copies which one is for library collection and the other for the use of students but supply of the album is only in limited offer and that orders should be made directly to the institute's registrar.

Part III. Evaluates the ways in which nursing bodies can build up libraries and library resources for the profession. Statistical guides for the profession; Plea for inclusion of basic training in the use of library tools and in professional writing in nursing education.

This article focuses on literature related to the United States-Mexican border region. The United States-Mexicans border is a point where two diverse cultures meet and intermingle. Historians, public servants, legislators and others who are intimately concerned with the situation have long recognized the region as a somewhat unique area; the concept of uniqueness has been expressed in various ways, depending upon the orientation of the individual concerned. The author of the article informs that the purpose of the guide is to aid researchers dealing with contemporary situations. Within this concept one might legitimately include all historical works dealing with the area, since history is a continuum and conditions of the sixteenth century have had their influence on the institutions of today. But it would be manifestly impossible to include all historical writing on the area, and as a consequence an arbitrary line of distinction has been set; with few exceptions, and then only if the work is particularly applicable, the guide includes material dealing only with the period after Mexican independence.

Focuses on the historical evolution of oratorical formulas in the seventeenth century England. Production of collection of oratorical formulas by Desiderius Erasmus; Similarity between formulas of John Clarke and Thomas Farnaby; Development of oratorical formulas in Latin language.

Reveals materials for the study of French history in the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University. Acquisition policy of the library; Focus on printed source materials for the history of the Americas before 1801; Documentation of the history of New France; French travel and exploration.

The article offers information on the Khazars, who were a conglomerate of semi-nomadic Turkic tribes from Asia. It mentions the lack of authentic information about the Khazars and of cultural artifacts, as well as the fact that the Crimea and surroundings were called "Khazaria"; and also mentions in addition the falsifications of writer Abraham Firkovich, the theories about the Khazar origin of the Eastern European Jews, produced a host of writings.

To improve accessibility and maintenance of art slides in the United States Military Academy Library at West Point, a model card with a graphic image of the slide was designed with pertinent identifying information displayed directly above a black-and-white opaque photo and also key-punched into it. The card serves for ample comparison reference previous to handling the slides and can produce a subject-arranged permuted index in book form. The latter permits access from the approach of form, geographic area, name, time of origin, artist, school, or style, etc. Some added advantages, common to other kinds of graphic collections, are detailed. Estimated costs of photo-reproduction of original cards, various kinds of copies, and computer time and materials ore listed. Future benefits from a consistent, unified cataloging system for graphic objects and the dissemination of this kind of information in a network structure are indicated as major goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A definite need exists for an absolute and uniform means of comparison and evaluation of certain characteristics of various information retrieval systems. This paper is concerned only with the system's ability to satisfy queries; the effort and time used, and their relative costs, are not considered. Some past procedures that have been used are reviewed and discussed, along with some of the difficulties that arise when these procedures are followed. We present some desirable characteristics for a meaningful measure of effectiveness, then analyze in detail one such measure that may be used to compare the retrieval capabilities of a large variety of systems. This measure, called the "normalized sliding ratio," has a relation to the classical recall and precision ratios and may be looked on as a generalization of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process and compexity of scientific communication is presented in graphic form. A plan is presented for the development of a library network involving the National Agricultural Library and a selected group of libraries of land-grant colleges. The proposal is to cover the entire literature in the field of biology and agriculture by the method of each library assuming responsibility for a collection in depth in a given special subject area, and then, through an AIBS central clearing house, furnishing information and actual articles to all participating libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on microfiche, a piece of flat transparent film for reproducing pages or documents in microform. In a normal size print the title of the piece appears at the top of the long side of the sheet. The microfiche is made by means of an automatic step camera developed in The Netherlands by J. Goebel. The microfiche is made by means of an automatic step camera developed in the Netherlands by J. Goebel. This step camera can reduce up to twenty-five times. The book, or other text to be reproduced, is placed on the bookholder above which there is a glass plate.

Presents abstracts of research on documentation and librarianship. "A. I. A. Standard Filing System," by the American Institute of Architects; "Translating Spoken English Into Written Words," by Edmund C. Berkeley; "Biological Research--From Journal Article to Abstract"; "Conservation of Library Materials."

The article presents a bibliography of documentation which appears regularly in the journal "American Documentation." One of the notes provides that the Division of Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation, for administrative purposes, has departed from conventional terminology, such as biochemistry, biophysics and physiology, in its system for grouping research projects into categories. For this purpose, biological sciences have been divided into areas covering the full spectrum of biology with the molecule at one extreme and the psyche at the other.