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A GUIDE FOR THE USE OF THE TEXTILE INFORMATION SYSTEM A THESJS Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate Division by Joanne Butterworth In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Information Science Georgia Institute of Technology December, 1964 A GUIDE FOR THE USE OF THE TEXTILE INFORMATION SYSTEM Approved: v ~-t 7 Date approved by Chairman: A^WW /7. 14*t ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to my co-advisors, Dr. W. L. Hyden and Dr. E.G. Roberts, for their concern and assistance during the course of my work. As the first student to receive a degree in the School of In­ formation Science, I am especially thankful to Mrs. J. H. Crosland, Director of Libraries, who encouraged me to enter the new School. I appreciate the financial assistance given me by the A. French Textile School. The interest shown by friends made in this School has been an important factor in my work. In addition, a major factor affecting my work has been the con­ tinued patience and advice of my parents. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . ii SUMMARY. vii Chapter I. INTRODUCTION ............ 1 Statement of Problem . 1 Historical Background Leading to Problem 2 Comments on Growth of Textile Field 2 Textile Field as Allied to Other Fields 3 Review of Literature ...... M- II. PROCEDURE IN THE STUDY OF THE TEXTILE INFORMATION SYSTEM . 6 III. PRIMARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS .... 9 Introduction ........... 9 Periodicals 10 Society Type ...... 11 Commercial Type Sponsored by Societies 12 Trade Type ...,„..... 13 Other Types. ....... 15 Periodicals in Related Fields 15 Organization of Information in Periodicals 17 Remarks on Questionnaire and Citation Surveys 20 Other Studies of Periodicals 24 Translations 24 Institutional Publications 25 U. S. Government Publications . 26 Department of Agriculture 26 Agricultural Marketing Service 2 7 Economics Research Service 27 Agricultural Research Service 27 Southern Utilization Research and Development Division 27 Department of Commerce 2 8 Bureau of Census 28 Business and Defense Services Administration 29 Office of Business Economics 29 National Bureau of Standards 30 Patent Office. 31 Office of Technical Services 31 iv Chapter Page III. PRIMARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS (CONTINUED) Department of Defense. 32 Army 32 Navy 32 Federal Trade Commission 32 Tariff Commission. .... 32 Senate and House of Representatives 33 General Indexes to Government Publications 33 Technical Reports and Indexes to Them 35 Office of Technical Services and Department of Defense 35 Atomic Energy Commission and National Aeronautics and Space Administration 36 Standards, Specifications and Indexes to Them 37 American Society for Testing and Materials 38 Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry . 39 American Standards Association ... 39 Textile Standardizing Bodies 40 U. S. Government Standardizing Bodies 41 Codes. ........ 42 Trade Association Literature 43 Patent Literature 45 Nature of Patents. ...... 45 Kinds of Patents 45 Sources for Patents 46 Parts of a Patent. , . 47 Classification of Patents 49 Searching Patent Literature and Patent Indexes 50 Design Patents . „ 53 Foreign Patents. ....... 53 Trade-Marks and Copyrights 54 Theses and Dissertations 55 General Indexes „ , . 55 Textile Schools Offering Master's Degrees 57 Textile Schools Offering Ph.D. Degrees 58 Manufacturers ' Literature 59 Technical Bulletins 59 Equipment Manuals. ..... 62 IV. SECONDARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS ... 64 Introduction 64 Abstracting and Indexing Journals 64 Characteristics of Abstracting and Indexing 6 5 National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services 67 V Chapter Page IV. SECONDARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS (CONTINUED) Textile Journals Carrying Abstracts 67 Fiber Science Abstracting Journals 69 Fiber Technology Abstracting Journals 70 Comments on Coverage of Abstracting Services 71 Related Abstracting Journals . 72 General Technology Indexing Journals 73 General Indexing Journals 74 Review Literature. .... 74 Annual Review Books 75 Annual Review Papers . 77 Bibliographies . 78 Textile Bibliographies of Primary Sources 79 Bibliographies of Periodicals 80 General Bibliographies of Books 81 Textile Book Lists 83 Reference Literature 84 Dictionaries 84 Standardized Terms 85 Other Textile Dictionaries 86 Encyclopedias 86 General. 87 Textile. 87 Others Related to Textiles 88 Handbooks. 88 Chemical 88 Fiber 89 Textile Processing 90 Textile Industry 90 Treatises 91 Science of Fibers 91 Technology of Fibers 92 Dyes and Dyeing 93 Books 96 Monographs 97 Textbooks. 99 Laboratory Manuals 100 V. TERTIARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS. 102 Introduction 102 Guides 102 Textile 103 Others 105 vi Chapter Page V. TERTIARY SOURCES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF FIBERS (CONTINUED) Directories and Manufacturers' Catalogs 106 General Business Directories 107 Textile Directories. 108 Buyers' Guides „ 109 Chemical Materials Catalogs . Ill Equipment Catalogs . 112 Biographies......... 112 General Indexes 112 Industrial Indexes ... 113 Science and Technology Indexes 113 Yearbooks 114 Sections in Journals 114 Language Dictionaries. 115 Bibliographies of Language Dictionaries 115 Bilingual Textile Dictionaries 116 Polylingual Textile Dictionaries 117 Bibliographies of Bibliographies . 118 VI. PROCEDURES IN SEARCHING THE LITERATURE OF FIBER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY . 119 Current Awareness Searches . 120 Data Searches 121 Types of Specific Data Questions 122 State-of-the-Art Searches. 124 Steps in Searching 124 APPENDICES ......... 129 A. Descriptions of 100 Journals 130 B. Quesxionnaire Sent to Textile Professionals 176 C. Chronology Chart of Journal Literature 180 D. Organizational Charts of Departments of Agriculture and Commerce 183 E. A United States Patent 185 F. Steps in Literature Searching 189 LITERATURE CITED ..... 191 vii SUMMARY An information system is defined in this study as the complex of tools, sources, and techniques employed to organize information. Because information systems have grown to be so complicated, they re­ quire a guide to show the methods of organization employed and to direct the user to their component parts. Information systems in fields such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics are well delineated; the scientists and engineers working in these fields have at their command several good guides to the literature. The textile investigator, on the other hand is not so fortunate. The existing textile guides are not comprehensive , nor do they facilitate a quick and effective approach to textile information. The objective of this work is to furnish a guide which identifies and describes the component parts of the information system in the fields of textile science and technology. Emphasis is placed on informa­ tion needs and uses of research workers, technologists, and graduate students in the field. In this study, textile literature sources are divided into pri­ mary, secondary, and tertiary groups. The primary groups (periodicals, U. S. government publications, technical reports, patents, theses, trade association and manufacturers' literature) contain essentially unorgan­ ized information. The secondary sources (abstracting and indexing journals, review literature, bibliographies, reference books, mono­ graphs, and textbooks) contain organized information and are tools for viii the use of primary sources. The tertiary sources (guides, directories and manufacturers' catalogs, biographies, language dictionaries, and bibliographies of bibliographies) also contain organized information and are tools for the use of primary and secondary sources. The last part of this work is devoted to suggested procedures in searching the textile information system previously identified and described. An extensive Table of Contents is offered in lieu of a compre­ hensive subject and title index. A major portion of the appended ma­ terial is an alphabetical index to the journal literature of textile and related fields. Publisher's information and comments on scope and viewpoint are given for each journal. These journals were selected by means of a citation survey and questionnaires sent by the author to textile professionals. 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Statement of Problem Scientific and technological knowledge , acquired by means of ex­ perimentation, is transmitted by verbal or written communication. Al­ though new methods of written communication and documentation have developed in the twentieth century, scientists and engineers, neverthe­ less, find themselves confronted with vast amounts of information con­ tained in many kinds of publications. More than ever before, they need to be able to find and use information quickly and