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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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1975
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED129262 |
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- The Library of Congress as the National Bibliographic Center. Minutes of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (87th, Washington, D.C., October 15-16, 1975). Cataloging Conference Reports Databases Foundation Programs Information Services International Programs Library Automation Library Networks National Libraries National Programs Research Libraries The Library of Congress was the topic of the October, 1975, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Presentations were given on: (1) the future uses of automation to aid the Library of Congress in its authoritative information and bibliographic data collection and dissemination functions; (2) the progress and projections for the MARC (machine readable cataloging) distribution service and retriever; (3) the national and international automated networks of the Library of Congress; and (4) the process of transition to the Library's automated systems. The director of the research grant division of the National Endowment for the Humanities introduced the library-related programs of her division. The National Commission for Libraries and Information Science made a progress report on the development of a national information service program. Reports of ARL commissions and executives followed in the business meeting. (KB)