Holdings survey

One important aspect of the MAGiC project is an investigation into the into the locations of key collections of engineering technical reports series in the UK. Apart from the substantial holdings of the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC), other major collections of technical reports tend to be scattered across academia, government and industry. These resources are difficult to identify, locate and access. The information we gather will be used to lay the foundations of a National Reports Catalogue. The catalogue will act effectively as a "shop window" for engineering organisations and raise awareness, visibility and use of technical reports in the UK.

This questionnaire is aimed specifically at stock librarians, information officers and others involved in the acquisition, management and use of technical reports in the UK.

The management of reports literature is a complex issue. You may find that some questions are not relevant to you, or, for various reasons, there are others you are unable to answer. If this is so, please answer those questions you can and return the questionnaire to us anyway. A partially completed questionnaire is more useful than none at all. Alternatively, if you prefer to discuss this with us further, please contact John Harrington or Katy Sidwell on 01234 754451.

Section A - Your reports holdings

A1. Does your organisation have holdings of technical reports series? Yes No
If you answered 'Yes' go to A2. If you answered 'No' go to Section D.

A2. Are your reports holdings indexed or catalogued? Yes No
If you answered 'Yes' go to A3. If you answered 'No' go to A7.

A3. Are the reports indexed/catalogued? individually as serials/periodicals

A4. Can you identify reports as a separate category? Yes No

A5. Is the format of the catalogue/index? electronic printed both

A6. How may we obtain/access a copy?

A7. Please describe briefly your library's history in engineering technical reports.

A8. Please give a brief description of your present collecting policy relating to engineering technical reports.

A9. Please note any particular or unique strengths in your engineering technical reports holdings.

A10. Size of holdings. If you can supply them, we should be grateful for even approximate figures indicating the size of your holdings of engineering technical reports.

A11. What classification scheme(s),if any, do you use for engineering technical reports?

Section B - access information

B1. Are your technical reports available for issue reference both

B2. What are your admission regulations?

B3. Please note any special features of the location and availability of your reports holdings

B4. What are your opening times and any regular closed periods?

B5. Please describe allowed users and any attached conditions, charges, etc.

B6. Do you make loans to other libraries? If so, on what conditions? (e.g. standard SCONUL conditions)

Section C - additional information

C1. We would like to add details of your organisation to the National Reports Catalogue. May we contact you for further information? Yes No

C2. In addition to having holdings, does your organisation produce technical reports? Yes No

C3. MAGiC may be able to offer sets of downloadable bibliographic records for reports series, to enhance your local services. Would you be interested in such a service? Yes No

C4. Please use this box for any additional comments you may wish to make.

Section D - Organisation contact details

D1. Organisation:

D2. Department:

D3. Title (Dr, Mr, Mrs, etc):

D4. Name:

D5. Job title/position:

D6. Postal address:

D7. Post code:

D8. Telephone number:

D9. Email address:

D10. URL:

D11. Sector:	Academia Government Industry Other
	If other, please specify:


Section E - form submission

Thank you for taking part in our preliminary survey of reports holdings in the UK. Please press the 'Submit' button to send the form to us.

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