Survey findings indicate that inclusion, even partial inclusion, of holdings of academic libraries in an online union catalog significantly accelerates interlibrary lending by those libraries; e.g., six years after initial participation in OCLC, 37 Ohio libraries were lending 75 percent more material. (Author/JVP)

The Ohio State University Libraries On-line Remote Catalog Access and Circulation Control System (LCS) began on-line operations with the conversion of one department library in November 1970. By December all 26 libraries had been converted to the automated system and LCS was fully operational one month ahead of schedule. LCS is designed as a…