Reports on a forum held at Rutgers University that addressed issues involved in authority control in the online environment of libraries. Topics discussed include authority control to help the collocating functions of a library catalog; authority control in online systems; automated authority control and technical services; and users and thesaurus…

Describes hypertext and discusses the need for classification schemes in hypertext knowledge bases. The process for finding and using information in libraries is considered; the use of classification in libraries is discussed, including the development of library catalogs; an example of hypertext with a classification structure is described; and…