Examines present and future usage of computer services in libraries, including information storage and retrieval and circulation and inventory control. (MK)

The seventh annual Interuniversity Communications (EDUCOM) Council Meeting and Conference was designed as a forum at which some of the successful applications of computing to higher education could be examined and discussed. Particular attention was given to those applications which seemed to have wide applicability, and to those which might be…

Computer assisted instruction (CAI) may well represent the next phase in the involvement of the library or learning resources center with media and the educational process. The Lister Hill Center Experimental CAI Network was established in July, 1972, on the recommendation of the National Library of Medicine, to test the feasibility of sharing CAI…

Three articles discuss the issue of the mediator's role in the library of the electronic age. Topics addressed include computer-assisted instruction; online catalogs; computer networks; professional identity; reference service and bibliographic instruction; CD-ROMs; online systems; personal home microcomputers; Internet and list servers;…