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Bibliographic Control of South Asian P.L. 480 Materials, an Automated Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

André Preibish
André Preibish
Affiliation:
Area Studies Department, Syracuse University
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Abstract

Bibliographic control of South Asian P.L. 480 materials in local languages presents numerous problems in spite of the useful aids and services provided by the Library of Congress. In order to record in machine readable form entries for the items received, and to add them to the existing data bank a simple automated system was devised. It consists of sequential and alphabetical listings for each language and a subject index based on a thesaurus of descriptors, taking into account characteristic features of a given language. Instantaneous retrieval via the above-mentioned elements is assured. Furthermore the system provides data for subject content analysis of the collection by language.

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Research Notes and Abstracts
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , May 1972 , pp. 599 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972

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References

1 Williamson, William L., ed.: Impact of the Public Law 480 Program on Overseas Acquisitions by American Libraries;proceedings of a conference held at the Wisconsin Center,Madison, Wisconsin,May 12, 1967. Corrected repr. ed. (Madison, 1968).Google Scholar

2 Mortimer Graves: “The Library of Congress P.L. 480 foreign Acquisition Program: User's-eye view.” In American Council of Learned Societies. Newsletter, (special supplement). (September 1969).

3 See Maureen L. P. Patterson's paper in William L. Williamson: The Impact of the Public Law 480 Program on Overseas Acquisitions by American Libraries op. cit pp. 17–28 and “Policies and Procedures for Processing P.L. 480 materials” a memo from R. M. Ross dated September o, 1971 of Cornell University Libraries and distributed to Liheld braries participating in P.L. 480 Program.

4 Patterson, Maureen L. P.: a) “South Asian Area Studies and the Library” Library Quarterly Vol. 35 no. 4 (October 1965) pp. 223–238Google Scholar .

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5 Letter to the author from the Overseas Operations Division of the Library of Congress dated March 10, 1971.

6 Maureen L. P. Patterson. “Bibliographical Controls for South Asian Studies” op. cit., p. 99.