Computer techniques of information processing are useful not only for retrieving desired references from diverse col lections but also for managing large-scale bibliographies with a common focus. Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, Director of the Korea Project at the Human Relations Area Files, de scribes the use of computers in developing a comprehen sive social science bibliography on Korea.
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1949Sōk, Chu_myōng. ? Chejudo kwan'gye munhōnjip (A list of the literatures concerning on the Is. Quelpart. Seoul, Soul Sinmunsa, 1949. 252 p. 22 cm. Korean. DLC MH-HY CtY NNC.
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1950McCune, Shannon Boyd-Bailey.Bibliography of Western language materials on Korea. Revised, enlarged edition. New York, International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1950. 17 p. 28 cm. English. MH-HY CtY DLC.
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1950U.S. Library of Congress. Reference Department.Korea: An annotated bibliography of publications in Far Eastern languages. Washington D.C., 1950. 8, 167 p. 27 cm. English. CtY DLC MH-HY.
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1950U.S. Library of Congress. Reference Department.Korea; an annotated bibliography of publications in the Russian language. Compiled by Albert Parry, John T. Dorosh, and Elizabeth Gardner Dorosh. Washington, 1950. xi, 84 p. English. MH DLC HRAF.
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1950U.S. Library of Congress. Reference Department.Korea; an annotated bibliography of publications in Western languages. Compiled by Helen Dudenbostel Jones and Robin L. Winkler. Washington, 1950. ix, 155 p. English. DLC MH CtY MH_HY.
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1952Gerow, Bert A.Publications in Japanese on Korean anthropology. A bibliography of uncatalogued materials in the Kanaseki Collection, Stanford University Library. [Stanford, Stanford University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1952]. iv, 18 p. 28 cm. Mimeographed. English. DLC MH.
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1960Elrod, J. McRee.An index to English language periodical literature. Thesis (M.S.) George Peabody College for Teachers. 214 p. English. CtY-D DLC. "Available on microfilm from the Yonsei University Library, Seoul, Korea, after March, 1961."
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For a further discussion of the problems of library-oriented social science research, see Koh, H.C., "A Social Science Bibliographic System: Orientation and Framework," Behavior Science Notes , 1; (1966) 146-54.
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This project begain in January 1966 under the National Science Foundation contract GN-492. The assistance of the staffs of both the office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation and the Human Relations Area Files on this project is gratefully acknowledged.
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Currently Mr. Kilgour and his staff are revising and expanding the method used by the Columbia-Harvard-Yale project for the new Kline Science Library project at Yale. I am very much indebted to Mr. Kilgour and the members of his staff for their help and for making available to us the programs and methods of the Kline Science Library Basic production package.
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See Kilgour, Frederick G., "Library Catalogue Production on Small Computers," American Documentation, 17 (July 1966), 124-31
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, and "Mechanization of Cataloguing Procedures," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 53, (1965), 152-62.
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For an outline of a source profile, see Koh, H. C., op. cit., pp. 156-69, and also annotation worksheet.
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A survey of collections on Korea was conducted during our project to determine which libraries hold Korean collections. We now hold information on about 50 libraries of eight countries. All the published catalogues of these libraries are duplicated and filed in our location file on 5x8 inch slips, together with catalogue cards from the Library of Congress Union Catalogue Division and three Harvard libraries.
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Since last January, we have gathered over 35,000 entries of bibliographic citations and 50 selected bibliographies.
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OCM categories now represented by three-digit numbers are further expanded into five digits, so that the more specific topics under each category can be identified with code numbers. With the use of signs such as delta and pound (Δ, #), the relationship between two categories can also be stored and retrieved as a single unit.
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See George P. Murdock et al., Outline of Cultural Materials (4th ed. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1961).
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All the constant information to be punched on a group of similar types of bibliographic citation, whether it is the location or language of the source or any combination of other data, can be punched and attached to a control drum of the key-punch machine to expedite keypunching.
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For the recommendations for specific details in program design, see Kilgour, F.G., "Symbol-Manipulative Programming for Bibliographic Data Processing on Small Computers," College and Research Libraries, 27 (1966), 95-98.
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At the national Library of Medicine, searches of medical journal articles are completed ideally in a day or two, through a complex coordination of subject headings.
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See "Computer Applications in Biomedical Libraries," in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Man-Machine Communication, held on May 3-5, 1965, at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., pp. 106-07.
