Background and trends in slide collection management; the literature of slide collection management; slide acquisitions; the technical preparation of slides as stock items; slide retrieval; commercially available slide management and retrieval packages; medical slide collections; optical disc systems and the slide; some principles of slide library management. Appendices: some prominent general database packages which appear in the literature as being applied to picture and slide collection management; specialist automated picture and/or slide management systems; professional associations and other relevant bodies; producers/developers/publishers of CD, multimedia technology, image databases or imaging systems; centres of activity in audio-visual and image management.
