This 249 item, mostly annotated bibliography cites literature on the general themes of basic principles, hardware, software and application studies of data bases. The broad categories are principles, development possibilities, organizational design, bibliographies, economic aspects, data structure-design, file organization, programing, aviation, banks, education, government, industrial applications, information retrieval, medical databanks, management information systems (MIS), personal identification, postal and telecommunication services, science, urban planning, and privacy and security. Most of the citations are in English, though some are French and German. (SJ)