This guide establishes general policy to be adopted in setting up a documentation center. The topics covered are: (1) preliminary definitions and considerations, (2) document collection, (3) identification and handling of documents, (4) document analysis, (5) document use and distribution, (6) instructions for making a card index and (7) modern…

This work has been done as part of the effort to plan the National Institute of Education (NIE). The report, one of a series, describes the alternatives that must be considered in deciding the organization and management of a new Federal agency to conduct and support research and development. The alternatives examined are also germane to the…

This summary lists the conclusions drawn from future-oriented inquiry into the societal context of education used to guide the analysis of goals and NIE program alternatives. Areas of concern specifically identified were (1) policy-oriented research on the societal context of education; (2) decentralized approaches to increase the effectiveness of…

The general goal of the National Institute of Education (NIE) is to improve practice in all areas of education so that all Americans can benefit from the best education possible. To determine methods for reaching this goal, this report describes NIE's mission, examines possible organizational structures for NIE, discusses suggested alternative…

This paper reviews analyses undertaken by four separate persons to examine the problems and goals of education and to suggest program priorities for the initial years of the National Institute of Education. The document describes the consensus concerning goals and the manner in which the different analyses move from goals to a list of programs.…

An historical account of the apathy, neglect and mishandling of the archival papers of the State of North Carolina is given and the development of a truly archival agency is described. The subject of the second paper in this series of three papers is the relationship of archives to active record offices in North Carolina. It examines the State's…

The complete program for this four-day conference is included in this proceedings. The papers are grouped into the following major sections: Official Opening, Greetings from American Library Association, Presidential Address, Plenary Papers, General Papers, Archives Section Papers, Public Libraries Section Papers, Children's Libraries Section…

Lists and describes 200 current issues and controversies involving student editors, faculty advisers, and the campus communications media; also lists materials relating to each item, copies of which are available upon request. (GW)

Discusses the national archives of Zimbabwe, the legislation that has directed the collection and use of the archives, the value of colonial archives in the educational process, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the formation of national policy. (CLB)

Briefly describes the creation and evolution of Unesco's General Information Programme; the integration of the information, library, and archives components; the changes in emphasis to respond to evolving needs; and current challenges and adjustments to budgetary limitations. (Author/CLB)

This paper describes development of preservation/conservation policy in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Discussion covers concentration on manuscripts and older books, training of library personnel by the conservation staff, preservation methods, and balance between an institution's responsibilities to its readers and its duty to…

Although a nationwide survey of genealogical services in libraries relates problems of limited budgets and trained personnel, it emphasizes that local genealogists' support can be valuable asset to libraries. Growth of interest in genealogical research is continuing phenomenon with which reference librarians will be expected to deal. Forty-three…

Goals of micropreservation project at New York Public Library are twofold: to improve in-house processing and control of microforms (updating bibliograhic information, adding records to Research Libraries Information Network database, inspecting archival master negatives) and to participate in national preservation effort (supplementing…

The history, organization, function, holdings, regulations, and services of the International Library, Museum and Archives of Optometry, a section of the American Optometric Association, are outlined. (MSE)

The book "Double Fold" is an investigation into what its author Nicholas Baker, a novelist and essayist, terms as a deception of research libraries and their maintenance of books and newspapers, their paper collections. This book is a response to Baker's writings, based on the author's perspective as an archivist. The first chapter introduces…