Included in these proceedings are edited versions of presentations given at a conference which was designed to provide an overview of some of the major telecommunication developments likely to impact libraries and information centers in the future. Technologies reviewed include slow-scan television, teleconferencing, and videodisc. Other papers…

The Program Session of the April 1984 meeting of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) was devoted to discussion of electronic information delivery systems. Recent developments in six areas were covered: (1) electronic manuscript generation and transmission; (2) online full-text searching and retrieval; (3) online database…

This document contains the full transcript of a 2-day workshop on library automation. The first day of the workshop was devoted to a review of the state-of-the-art of library automation and the second day included presentation of testimony by Maine librarians. The transcript of the first day includes discussions of the historical development of…