Maintains that children have been denied access to information through the omission of children's materials in the development of automated information systems, and through the failure of library networks to develop policies that include children as users. Eleven references are cited. (FM)

Twenty-one libraries in Library Computer System participated in collection overlap study. Findings of random sample representing 1% of each collection indicate that high percentage of titles, 69.4%, occurred only once in network and that percentage of each library's collection unique to that library, ranged from 6.1% to 68.4%. (21 references) (EJS)