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Bossers, Anton; Van Muyen, Martin – Electronic Library, 1984
Describes the Pica Library Automation Network (originally the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation), which is based on a centralized bibliographic database. Highlights include the Pica conception of library automation, online shared cataloging system, circulation control system, acquisition system, and online Dutch union catalog with…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Foreign Countries, Library Acquisition
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1982
Papers on library and information networks which were presented at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Introduction to the Open and Closed Networking Concepts" by R. M. Bennett (Canada), which differentiates between space-biased and time-biased communications media, relates these…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans
Willemsen, Arie W. – 1985
This paper describes the interlending system in the Netherlands and examines the country's union catalogs, the main instrument in the interlending procedure. An overview of the integrated interlending system is provided; the union catalogs of the Royal Library in The Hague, the Technical University Library at Delft, and the library of the…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1985
Papers on interlibrary loans and document delivery which were presented at the 1985 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "The Activities of the IFLA Office for International Lending" (Richard J. Bennett, British Library Lending Division, United Kingdom); (2) "Electronic Networking for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, International Organizations

Oosterop, Danielle – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Describes Pica, an organization in the Netherlands which evolved from the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation that includes the National Library and all university libraries. Topics include the organizational structure, the shared online cataloging system, interlibrary loan, library networks and database access, and electronic document…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Databases, Document Delivery