This paper seeks to spotlight the actual conditions of foreign book selection and collection in the university libraries.
　The source items were drawn from the 1974 edition of Union Catalog of Foreign Books, compiled by the National Diet Library.
　The matter for investigations are as follows; author, publisher, place and year of publication, and form of publication by subject and language.
　The results of analysis can be summarized as follows;
　1) In any case natural science books, especially theoretical ones, tend to be processed promptly than others.
　2) Books in the field of cultural sciences, tend to be individual works and commercial publications, and the promptness of acquisition is not asked for.
　In many cases, books are required which were published many years before.
　3) In the field of social sciences, joint authors and corporate bodies as authors are eminent. This comes from the reason that the publishers of this field usually tend to be international organizations, international corporations, or government organizations, and that the centents of books are apt to be statistics or reports.
　4) In the field of natural sciences, the ratio of commercial publications exceed social sciences.
　University academic society is prominent.
　“Proceedings” is prominent.
　Newly published books are mostly concerned in this field.
　Both languages and nations of publications are limited, and as for the language, books of Russian language are prominent, and as for the nation of publication, the Netherlands is distinguished.

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　(1) To make the school library a medium-center for studying, it is necessary to promote the ability of the students in information management in order to enable them (the users) to make use of a variety of media by guiding them to the proper use. It is because the students are compelled to find difficulty in using them, however hard we may try to organize information and present it to users.
　(2) The learning ability in future will depend upon how to promote the ability in information management. This ability will bring forth reproduction and creation of information.
　(3) In our language teaching, we have made efforts to let them promote expression ability (composition ability) in order to enable them to manage documents. We have aimed at students acquiring creative expression ability by developing the study from short composition to long composition (to write a subject—to write grammatically—to write expressively) for the purpose of making the students establish a “writing habit in life.”
　(4) In advance, through this guide, we have checked their present managing ability, observed how they are trying to deal with information managing by using extract cards, evaluated their expression ability through their reports, and then observed how they begin to study by “BIBLOS” (an introductory text-book to library use for the students) and its results by post-checking.
　(5) In this course of studying, the students have certainly acquired expression ability. From now on it will be necessary for the students to make efforts to have a subjective critical mind and reproduce and create more valuable information.

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　Books are read for their thought-content. Each heading in the catalogue, then, must reflect the thought-content. Books are the physical means by which thought-content, that is, literature is transmitted. Each entry as a bibliographic unit describes a unit of thought-content.
　It should be noted that a library catalogue has the function of collocating the thought-content of books irrespective of their physical shape on the shelves. It uses bibliographic data to assemble literary units under uniform headings. Headings, therefore, may also serve as an informtion retrieval list for the thought-content or literature.
　As regards access to content, the physical aspects are irrelevant. For a book in this role, a definite quantity of material is essential. But, from the point of view of physical accessibility, the catalogue should function as a finding list which will identify the bibliographic data, that is, the “form” in which the material is to be presented. If a heading is to function in this way, a concrete form of material indispensable. In other words, a heading which serves as a finding list will also provide a brief definition of a book describing the form of the material.
　I conclude that the bibliographic unit in its heading provides two sorts of information. The first is abstract and systematically defines thought-content. The second is concrete and describes bibliographically the physical characteristics.

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　Am 8. Mai 1945 ging der zweite Weltkrieg zu Ende. Die Deutsche Bücherei hatte diesen Krieg ohne grösseren Gebäudeschaden überstanden; der grösste Teil ihrer Bestände befand sich in 10 verschiedenen Auslagerungsorten. Sie konnten mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung durch die sowjetischen Besatzungsmacht in kurzer Frist wieder zurückgeführt werden. Am 24. November 1945 wurde die Deutsche Bücherei wieder für die Benutzung geöffnet. Die Wiederaufnahme der Arbeiten der Bibliothek bedeutete nicht nur eine blosse Fortsetzung ihrer bibliothekarischen und bibliographischen Tätigkeit vor 1945, sondern zugleich und im umfassenden gesellschaftspolitischen Sinne ein Neubeginnen.
　Mit der Gründung der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik war auch die Deutsche Bücherei an einem Wendepunkt ihrer Entwicklung nach 1949 angelangt. Hatten bis 1949 im wesentlichen die Beseitigung der durch den Krieg verursachten Trümmer und Schäden sowie die Wiederaufnahme der durch die faschistische Herrschaft unterbrochenen traditionellen Aufgaben der Bibliothek im Mittelpunkt ihrer Arbeiten gestanden, so rückten nach 1949, besonders aber seit 1953, dem Jahre des beginnenden Aufbaus des Sozialismus in der DDR, neue, zusätzliche Aufgaben in den Vordergrund, die neben den traditionellen Verpflichtungen der Bibliothek im Interesse der schnellen politischen, wirtschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Entwicklung der DDR zu erfüllen waren.
　Für die grosse Unterstützung der Regierung der DDR und des ZK der SED dankten die Mitarbeiter der Deutschen Bücherei durch erhöhte Anstrengungen und ständig verbesserte Leistungen. Ihre Bemühungen gingen dahin, nicht nur die Aufgaben exakt zu erfüllen, die Deutsche Bücherei als Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in erster Linie zu lösen hat, sie liefen auch darauf hinaus, mit den ihr eigenen Mitteln den sozialistischen Aufbau in der DDR auf allen Gebieten bewusst zu fördern. Die von der Bibliothek betreute umfassendste und vollständigste Sammlung des deutschsprachigen Schrifttunls ist in ihrer Art einmalig und ihre konsequente Weiterführung von grosser nationaler und internationaler Bedeutung. 1962 konnte die Bibliothek ihr 50 jahrigen Bestehen feiern. Diese Feier war ein Höhepunkt in der Geschichte der Deutschen Bücherei nach 1945.

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