Photocopying guidelines for records maintenance and retention for interlibrary photocopying; also a statement on copyright clearance. (JPF)

Canadian Library Association Annual Conference report. (Author)

Provides general guidelines for requesting and supplying interlibrary loan materials between libraries. The code does not prescribe the nature of interlibrary cooperation within formally established networks, but it may be used as a model for local, state, or regional codes. Sources of specific guidelines and procedures are contained in the…

The article concentrates on specific aspects which led to the establishment of the British Library Board. Particular consideration is given to future problems and difficulties. (1 reference) (Author/SJ)

Reviews the conception and services of ALANET, American Library Association's (ALA) electronic information service designed to create an electronic mail system and develop a wide-ranging information service to improve access to information resources of ALA. External databases, professional information services, communications networks, assisting…

Recounts history of development of Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) concept over past decade. Origin of concept in International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, three resolutions dealing with international interlibrary loans, conferences, Unesco support, and a document prepared for the 1982 UAP Congress are…

All of the program elements of this meeting related to the theme of new opportunities for research libraries. Speakers and discussion groups ranged over topics as diverse as the emerging technology of telecommunications and the continuing movement among academic librarians to improve their status, both with the college and university on the one…

The minutes of the May, 1974, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contain the texts of five presentations about Canadian research libraries. Descriptions of the National Library of Canada, the National Science Library, and Canadian University Libraries and their associations are followed by a discussion of the problems…

Introduces information request form developed by Cooperative Reference Services Committee of American Library Association's Reference and Adult Services Division to be used whenever a library cannot supply information requested by a patron and would like to ask another library for assistance. Front of proposed form with sample question is shown.…

In Pennsylvania 375 public, academic, and special libraries were surveyed in an effort to gather information concerning their interlibrary loan activity during April, 1978; personal discussions with librarians across the state were also conducted. Both sources were used in the development of recommendations for improving bibliographic access. The…

Papers on interlibrary loan and document delivery presented at the 1986 IFLA general conference include: (1) "Preservation and/or Availability of Older Literature--an Approach to the Problems, Needs, and Solutions" (Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, West Germany); (2) "From Decentralization to Centralization--Document Delivery in France in…

The second of two volumes of a conference preceedings, this volume contains the preprints of five submitted papers, which are published as submitted by the authors: M. Broadbent and L. B. McIntyre, "Information Management: Promise and Reality"; E. Spoor, "Management Information from Library Systems"; R. Walsh, "Integrated…

THESE PROCEEDINGS CONSIST OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE MEETING, GROUPED INTO TWO SUBJECT AREAS--THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION LIBRARY PROGRAM AND THE REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. THE IDEA OF THE SUCCESSFUL MEDICAL LIBRARY AS A PHYSICIAN'S LABORATORY IS EXPLORED, REFERRING TO VA HOSPITAL LIBRARIES. A DESCRIPTION OF THE…

The first American Library Association convention west of the Mississippi, held in 1891 in San Francisco, generated an interest in forming a California association. Then in 1895 a meeting of representatives of eight northern California libraries was called, and the California Library Association (CLA) was born. The five main areas of concern to…

Papers on interlibrary lending which were presented at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Inter-Library Loan Service of the National Library of China," a description by Huang Jungui and Zhao Qikang (People's Republic of China) of the history, organization, purposes, and possible…