A member of the British delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Planning of National Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures (Paris, September 1974) gives his views on the results of the conference and its implications for the future development of national information systems. (Author/PF)

In 1968 the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to support a project called Collaborative Library Systems Development (CLSD). Participants in the project were the libraries of the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Stanford University. Two of the more important objectives of the CLSD Project were: 1) to test certain technical…

Special Libraries Association Annual Conference report. (Author)

Library Financial Problems can be traced to world problems such as inflation and the emergence of a highly educated welfare state. While the demand for information is increasing, library materials are becoming more costly to acquire, store, and retrieve, and services are limited by the unavailability of materials resulting from restrictions on…

The May, 1976, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) meeting included a variety of presentations on library networks. Susan Martin defined various categories of automated library networks, reviewed potential functions of such networks, and discussed the implications for individual library operations. LeMoyne Anderson listed forces which are…

Reports on the 1976 Pittsburgh Conference on Resource Sharing in Libraries. (PF)

The fifteen speeches presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Canadian Library Association are: (1) Presidential Address, (2) Theme Day, (3) The Revolutionary 70's, Are We Ready, (4) The Prime Mover: The Role of the National Library, (5) What You Expect Out of Machines, (6) Twenty-Seven Million People: Four Million Square Miles: Where Shall…

Among the projects described are programs for the promotion of National Information Systems (NATIS) and of scientific and technological documentation and information. (PF)

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…

Drawn from the 15th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the nine papers presented in this volume deal with problems--or, in some cases, downright failures--in the automation of various facets of library service. They range from a general survey of failures or limitations…

The challenge of networking is now being extended to cooperative library and information center systems. There are new demands for improved techniques for image storage and transmission, specifically including automated storage and retrieval of microforms and ultra-microforms and new developments in graphic and facsimile transmission. In this…

As a commemoration of the first anniversary of the North Suburban Library System (NSLS), a program on "The Public Library in a Changing Suburbia" was presented to the trustees and staff members of the NSLS libraries. This report includes a speech entitled "The Suburban Library in the Affluent Ghetto," presented by Kenneth R. Shaffer; reactions to…

The Federal library community has felt an increasing concern about the role that Federal libraries will play in library and information network systems. Because of this concern, the Federal Library Committee (FLC) called a meeting at the Library of Congress on December 16, 1970 to discuss the implications for Federal libraries of the Conference on…

Written and adopted by delegates to the Governor's Conference in Spring 1979, this list of resolutions for libraries and library services in New Jersey covers seven topic areas: (1) general concerns, including the need for a Library and Information Services Planning Act; (2) broader access to public library services; (3) a statewide cooperative…

The purpose of this institute was to consider the ways in which various phases of interlibrary cooperation could be developed in a large and geographically scattered system composed of many once autonomous units which have developed independently up to the present. Attending the institute were librarians from the City University of New York and…