THE COMPILATION OF A FILE OF MEDIA RESEARCH LITERATURE, COVERING THE PERIOD FROM 1920 TO 1965, FOR USE WITH A COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WAS DESCRIBED. PERIODICAL, NONPERIODICAL, PUBLISHED, AND UNPUBLISHED LITERATURE IN A NUMBER OF FIELDS WAS SCANNED. THE PROCEDURE WAS ONE OF FOLLOWING LEADS INDICATED BY REFERENCES ACCOMPANYING CURRENT REPORTS INTO AN EXPANDING CIRCLE OF RELATED STUDIES. AT THE SAME TIME, PRODUCTIVE SOURCES WERE INVESTIGATED SYSTEMATICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFYING THOSE DOCUMENTS TO WHICH REFERENCE HAD NOT BEEN MADE. THIS REPORT SHOWS TABULATIONS OF ALL DOCUMENTS ABSTRACTED FOR THE SYSTEM WITH RESPECT TO SOURCE AND DATE OF ISSUE, BUT DOES NOT PROVIDE A DOCUMENT LISTING OR ANY ABSTRACTS. (FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, REFER TO ACCESSION NUMBERS ED 003 777 AND ED 010 239.) (JH)