Show Ute Library Installs System For Filing Periodicals By RAY M. BAYLES Chronicle Staff Writer A new system of recording the periodicals in the University Library is being investigated by the according to Librarian L. H. All necessary information regarding such as country of code number and has been abbreviated and punched out on IBM cards similar to student registration WITH THIS the Library could run off lists in less than two and necessary changes could be made in a matter of It would cost nearly to have it done on said The process was devised by the University of Kirkpatrick said that an up-to-date record of magazines and professional journals received by the Library has become a difficult In order to keep a current file of the employees are kept busy revising and retyping thousands of pages of information and placing it in a huge file It has consumed anywhere from six weeks to two months of their according to The Medical Library was the first to attempt the card but it was found that the initial phase of developing a method of and then punching the cards for more than medical journals would cost fifty-cents per and would be very time Kirkpatrick has discovered that the University of Texas which has over had already developed a card WROTE to them and asked for duplicates of their he and a complete set of their cards had been received at a cost of only The difficult job of abbreviating the necessary information and punching the file cards has been and the high costs have all been Kirkpatrick The task that remains is to check the University of Texas cards against the University file to see if this method can be used here before making a final Kirkpatrick expects that at least 80 per cent of the library's magazines and journals will match their |