Recommendations for National Documents Handling Systems in Science and Technology, Volumes 1-3Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Committee on Scientific and Technical Information U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Applied Technology, 1965 - Information storage and retrieval systems USA. Report on the need for a national level system of handling documentation and library material in the fields of science and technology - includes statement of the problem, study of general management requirements and systems requirements, review of legislation and of advanced information systems involving automation and the use of computer equipment, etc., conclusions and recommendations. Selected references, bibliography and glossary. |
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88th Congress acquisition activities announcement automation budget Capping Agency cataloging central CFSTI Chemical Abstracts Service collection communication coordination copy COSATI cost delegated agent departments and agencies depositories devices dissemination distribution document and information documentation area Engineering equipment established evaluation Federal agencies Federal Government functions implementation information and documentation information centers information handling services information services information system INVERTED INDEXES journals KWIC KWOC Library of Congress literature machine magnetic tape ment microfiche microform NASA NASATIA National Science Foundation needs non-Federal sector Office operations organizations personnel plans PREPARATION present system printing problem processing produced publication published RA system research and development retrieval S&T document S&T information science and technology scientific and technical scientists SERIALS STIB STINCORP storage System Development Corporation SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS tape Technical Information techniques tion translations user studies
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Page 9-3 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 9-2 - ... (5) finance under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, in consultation with the National Science Foundation and other interested agencies, (A) programs outside the United States for the analysis and evaluation of foreign books, periodicals, and other materials to determine whether they would provide information of technical or scientific significance in the United States and whether such books, periodicals, and other materials are of cultural or educational significance...
Page 9-6 - POLICY. — It shall be the policy of the Commission to control the dissemination of restricted data in such a manner as to assure the common defense and security.
Page 9-9 - Department to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...
Page 9-14 - States or any other country as to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer, by correspondence or by personal investigation of such studies, and with the approval of the Surgeon General make available such information through the appropriate publications for the benefit of health agencies and organizations (public or private), physicians, or any other scientists, and for the information of the general public...
Page 6-23 - ... the three national libraries, the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library...
Page 9-20 - Service, shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 9-2 - ... in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriation acts...
Page 9-3 - Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence and by practical and scientific experiments, (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power...