Major goals and tasks for the next three years are listed in this draft concept and guide for fostering development of library resource sharing in the Western United States and Canada. Major concepts, such as bibliographic utility and service center, are defined and 24 underlying assumptions regarding the environment for networking are set forth.…

The seven objectives of the conference were to investigate the feasibility of interstate, interlibrary cooperation; study needs of the region; identify and examine trends in local, state, regional and national planning; review cooperative library activities; formulate an organizational service working across state lines, identify specific…

For the purposes of this annotated bibliography, multitype library cooperation is defined as: Where two or more legal library entities cooperate in sharing resources, personnel, facilities, and/or programs with a library or libraries having a different legal base and being of another type. In an introductory section, sources of information on…

A rural library project of the Intermountain Group, a network of four land-grant universities, eight local communities, and the state libraries in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Montana, developed a Community Interest Inventory and solicited information on professional information needs from identified community groups who were users or potential…