This paper discusses the construction of the infrastructure for libraries' digital document telecommunications. The first section describes the topologies of the library LAN (Local Area Network) cabling system, including the main characteristics of the LAN and three classical topologies typically used with LANs, i.e., the bus, star, and ring…

This paper looks at some of the potential roles that librarians could adopt in the age of the Internet; e.g., resource discovery, cataloging the Internet, and user education. It outlines the effect that networked information is having on the library profession. It identifies the new roles that information professionals are performing and shows…

Research libraries are increasingly supplementing collection counts with perceptions of service quality as indices of status and productivity. The present study was undertaken to explore the reliability and validity of scores from the SERVQUAL measurement protocol (A. Parasuraman and others, 1991), which has previously been used in this type of…

In this bulletin, the Music Teachers' National Association committee on the history of music and libraries presents the summaries of the questionnaire prepared by the committee and sent out by the Bureau of Education in 1917-18. This is the first statement to show the condition and resources of the music sections of public and school libraries,…

Describes the outreach program of reading readiness for preschool children and their parents at Glassboro Public Library. (JB)

If the library is to serve a communication function, we need not only to gain further insight into the nature and pattern of the interpersonal encounter through scholarly research, but also to have a clearly defined notion of the library's role in today's rapidly changing society. (38 references) (Author)

The administrators of government information review some of the problems behind federal document and information services and present their views of the future. User queries elicit responses, but some questions are left unanswered. (Author)

The staffs, premises, collections, readers' service, information services, educational and research activities, publications, and cooperative efforts of Polish polytechnical institute libraries are described. (SJ)

A guiding principle of the Soviet economy is management by branches of industry. Information, documentation and bibliographical services for each branch are provided by central scientific and technical libraries. (4 references) (Author)

The Royal Institute of Technology Library in Stockholm operates a computerized SDI service to industry which has encouraged greater use of the library's collections through loans and photocopies. A useful by-product is a union catalog of serials in machine-readable form, from which a photo-composed list was published. (4 references) (Author/SJ)