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Academic Library Cataloging Practices Benchmarks

This 254 page report presents data from a survey of the cataloging practices of approximately 80 North American academic libraries. In more than 630 tables of data and related commentary from participating librarians and our analysts, the report gives a broad overview of academic library cataloging practices related to outsourcing, selection and deployment of personnel, salaries, the state of continuing education in cataloging, and much more. Survey participants also discuss how they define the catalogers¿ range of responsibilities, how they train their catalogers, how they assess cataloging quality, whether they use cataloging quotas or other measures to spur productivity, what software and other cataloging technology they use and why, and how they make outsourcing decisions and more. Data is broken out by size and type of college and for public and private colleges.Just a few of the reports many findings are presented below:¿More than 70% of the libraries in the sample say that their catalogers have salary levels that are comparable to those of public service librarians at their institutions.¿About 27.3% of the survey participants routinely use paraprofessional staff for original cataloging. Public colleges were more than three times more likely than private colleges to use paraprofessionals for original cataloging, and larger colleges were more than twice as likely as smaller ones to do so.¿41.56% of the libraries in the sample outsource authority control, obtaining new and updated authority records.¿About 15.6% of the libraries in the sample outsource the cataloging of e-journals; close to 28% of research universities do so.¿20.78% of libraries in the sample use MarcEdit or other MARC editor to preview records and globally edit to local standards prior to loading. ¿29.7% of the libraries in the sample have technical services areas that track turnaround time from Acquisitions receipt to Cataloging to shelf-ready distribution.¿About 24.7% of the libraries in the sample use paraprofessional support staff for master bibliographic record enrichment in OCLC. Most of those doing so were public colleges and offered beyond the B.A. degree.¿Authority control experience was considered a very important criterion for hiring by only 8.11% of survey participants, while a bit more than 35% considered it important. 21.62% considered authority control experience not so important as a hiring criterion.

Write and maintain policy and procedural documentation for cataloging and
physical processing tasks. 64. Perform and/or manage copy cataloging, following
current AACR2 cataloging rules, Dewey Decimal Classification rules, and local ...

Testing and certification for export products in industrializing countries

proceedings of a regional seminar held at the Regional English Language Centre and International House, Singapore, May 19-20, 1975

proceedings of a regional seminar held at the Regional English Language
Centre and International House, Singapore, May 19-20, 1975 Singapore Institute
of Standards and Industrial Research, United States. National Bureau of
Standards, ...

An Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program

The purpose of this assessment of the fusion energy sciences program of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science is to evaluate the quality of the research program and to provide guidance for the future program strategy aimed at strengthening the research component of the program. The committee focused its review of the fusion program on magnetic confinement, or magnetic fusion energy (MFE), and touched only briefly on inertial fusion energy (IFE), because MFE-relevant research accounts for roughly 95 percent of the funding in the Office of Science's fusion program. Unless otherwise noted, all references to fusion in this report should be assumed to refer to magnetic fusion. Fusion research carried out in the United States under the sponsorship of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) has made remarkable strides over the years and recently passed several important milestones. For example, weakly burning plasmas with temperatures greatly exceeding those on the surface of the Sun have been created and diagnosed. Significant progress has been made in understanding and controlling instabilities and turbulence in plasma fusion experiments, thereby facilitating improved plasma confinement-remotely controlling turbulence in a 100-million-degree medium is a premier scientific achievement by any measure. Theory and modeling are now able to provide useful insights into instabilities and to guide experiments. Experiments and associated diagnostics are now able to extract enough information about the processes occurring in high-temperature plasmas to guide further developments in theory and modeling. Many of the major experimental and theoretical tools that have been developed are now converging to produce a qualitative change in the program's approach to scientific discovery. The U.S. program has traditionally been an important source of innovation and discovery for the international fusion energy effort. The goal of understanding at a fundamental level the physical processes governing observed plasma behavior has been a distinguishing feature of the program.

In reality, high-temperature plasmas are not only of great intrinsic scientific
interest but also of great general interest in fields from astrophysics to material
science, with the goal of basic plasma physics being to elucidate the linear and ...

National performance audit program

1979 proficiency surveys for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfate, nitrate, lead, and high volume flow

To facilitate the comparison, the expected values are termed "x" and the reported
values are referred to as "y". The five x, y pairs are plotted to obtain a linear
regression plot, with the expectation that the coefficient of linearity (r) should be 1,
the ...

Substitute Inverse for the Basis of a Staircase Structure Linear Program

This report concerns a method for computing a substitute inverse for linear programs with a staircase structure. The constraints of a staircase structure linear program are of the following form: A(1)x(1)=d(1); B(t-1)x(t-1)+A(t)x(t) = d(t); (t = 2 ..., T). Letting m(i) be the number of constraints in period i, the substitute inverse consists of the inverse of T matrices which are m(i) x m(i), i = 1 ..., T as opposed to the actual inverse which is m x m, m = Sum over i m(i). Hence the substitute inverse would require significantly less storage than the actual inverse. Two methods are presented for updating the substitute inverse, both of which consist of updating some, but not necessarily all of the T smaller inverses. The first, a pivoting method, requires appending one or more columns to the smaller inverse and pivoting on the appended columns. The second requires adding one to T dyad matrices to the smaller inverses. Computational efficiency of both methods can be tested to a large degree using standard linear programming codes. (Author).

The second requires adding one to T dyad matrices to the smaller inverses. Computational efficiency of both methods can be tested to a large degree using standard linear programming codes. (Author).

User's manual for LINEAR, a FORTRAN program to derive linear aircraft models

National Needs and Arctic Research, a Framework for Action

Report of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission to the President and the Congress of the United States of America