Reports the results of a national survey of online systems in academic libraries which gathered information on acquisitions, serials, circulation, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and integrated systems. The results include relationships between library characteristics, such as size, and library reports of present systems and future plans, methods…

Describes a survey that examined the existence and activities of Friends of the Library groups at colleges and universities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The discussion includes founding dates, institutional data, factors affecting the formation of Friends groups, and the membership and purpose of existing groups. (14 notes/references)…

Describes the characteristics of and relationship between academic libraries and campus computing centers, and presents reasons to support the argument that the two organizations will continue to have distinct, though closely related, identities. Several issues that universities will have to address to formulate a campus-wide information policy…