Describes how microcomputers, together with an in-house developed expert system, are assisting Sweden's Linkoping University library staff, who possess beginning programing skills and computer expertise, in improving library performance. An example illustrating how the dimensional flowcharting improved the interlibrary loan operation is presented.…

Discussion of the scheduling procedures of librarians' hours at the reference desk at the Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library, University of Alberta, highlights services provided, the preference table system, and manual scheduling versus computer scheduling. (EJS)

Describes Project Retrieve, an information retrieval system designed especially for the Commodore PET Microcomputer, which is in use at the library of Brock University in Ontario. Over 200 instructional items housed at the library are identified by subject area on the computerized system. (JJD)

A description of the campuswide computer system at Aston University (England) includes a profile of the institution, the information technology strategy adopted, a current local networking project, information technology development priorities for the near future, the role of the library and information service, and management and organizational…

The consequences for the library of computerization at the University of Bradford (England) are examined. Options for the future development of library services are considered, with attention given to the lessons learned from and issues raised by the implementation of a new library system incorporating advances in information technology.…

Traces introduction of automation in National Scientific and Technical Information Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, highlighting online applications in English and Arabic. Systems developed (bibliographic control, union lists, circulation control, indexes) and use of STAIRS storage and retrieval system for integrated databases are…

A study investigated the relationship between costs per student (overall, instruction, library, computing, administration, physical plant) and enrollment in 61 Canadian universities. Also examined was the influence on cost of student mix, faculty-student ratio, faculty wages, program and discipline enrollment rates, and research intensity. (MSE)