This document provides instructions for a programming assignment on binary files. It defines a record type for books with fields for number, title, author, publication date, and borrowed status. It describes a program that reads book data from a text file into a binary file, allows the user to specify borrowed books by number, updates the borrowed field in the binary file, and outputs a list of borrowed books. It also shows how to access specific records in the binary file using seek and read the publication dates of the 5th and last books.