The author suggests that the constantly increasing demand for quick and easy access to data processing will make this the decade of the small computer." (Editor/AK)

A report on the Orange County library system, focusing on the technical details of its Book Inventory Building and Library Information Oriented System called BIBLIOS. (LS)

In viewing the library as "a system of complex, interrelated functions, this article is intended to "aid those unfamiliar with libraries to evaluate the degree of automation that has been accomplished and to appreciate the enormous amount of work that remains to be done before the potential of the computer is fully realized in libraries. …

This article provides a current status report on the computing and computer science activities at Stanford University, focusing on the Computer Science Department, the Stanford Computation Center, the recently established regional computing network, and the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences. Also considered are such topics…