Lesson 1 The Classification of Library Resources 1
Lesson 2 The Dewey Decimal Classification System 6
Lesson 3 The Library of Congress Classifi-cation System 15
Lesson 4 The Card Catalog 21
Lesson 5 Locating Sources for a Project 31
Lesson 6 Using Reference Books 39
Lesson 7 Judging Research Material 47
Lesson 8 General Intro duction to AACR 62
Lesson 9 Library Technical Service-Over-view 65
Lesson 10 Speech Delivered by the Head of the Chinese Delegation Partici-pating in the 47th General Conference of IFLA 83
Lesson 11 Instruction in Library Use 94
Lesson 12 The Library Today 103
Lesson 13 President Carter s Message to Congress on Libraries 115
Lesson 14 The Information Profession: an Occupational Survey 129
Lesson 15 Growth of Recorded Knowledge 137
Lesson 16 Microforms for Libraries 145
(1)Formats and Reduction Ratios 160
(2)Viewing and Printing 160
Lesson 17 MINI MARC 160
(1)What does it do? 170
(2)Tommorrow 170
Lesson 18 Book Preservation 170
(1)Why Books Deteriorate? 178
(2)National Preservation Program 178
Lesson 19 Choosing an Automated Library System 178
Lesson 20 Future Communications Tech-nology 185
Lesson 21 Computers for Library 193
Lesson 22 Computers 202
Lesson 23 Information Storage and RetrievalSystems and the Computer 211
Lesson 24 Library Housekeeping Operations and the Computer 225
Lesson 25 Library Net working in the UnitedStates 234
Supplement Reading Materials 263