This second annual edition, published by the bookmobile librarians of Northern Illinois LACONI-Outreach, provides questions to test bookmobile publicity, an outline of traditional publicity modes, descriptions of bookmobile programs, a discussion of bookmobiles versus books by mail and branch libraries, circulation cost comparisons, hints for…

Describes experiences of the Cranbrook Public Library (British Columbia) in implementation of an automated circulation system. Background of the library and need for the system, stages of development, use of community volunteers, retrospective conversion, functions of the menu-driven system, benefits from the system, software, and system costs are…

In 1967, the New York State Library at Albany (NYSL) developed a tape-oriented, off-line serials control system for 10,000 active titles. The system would perform all the serials control functions: bibliographic control, check-in of current receipts, claiming for gaps in receipts and late issues, binding notification for completed sets,…