Although critics of educational technology have asserted that the new media have attained little success, programs like "Sesame Street" have shown that educational technology is a valuable resource. The Nixon Administration is determined to support the uses of computers, television, and all forms of technology in the cause of education.…

As the scholarly record has grown, so have bibliographic control instruments, some of which are in machine readable form. The expense of setting up an organization for access to the machine readable data bases seems beyond the budgets of most institutions. The objective is to establish a dependable service organization to make machine readable…

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…

Temple University began use of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) system in January 1972. Implementation involved the development of detailed processing operation procedures. A comparison of manual and automated procedures at Temple illustrated the difficulties of changing from one system to the other and of the automated system itself.…

A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog of books, conducted from June 1973 through May 1975 under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49 year-old catalog in the context of interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. (Author)

A small academic library's experience in a regional intertype library network had positive effects on interlibrary loan procedures and improved and promoted cooperation at the local level. The regional network relieves the burden on large research libraries and enables libraries with inadequate resources to provide better service to patrons.…

Discusses the public library's movement toward consolidation/cooperation with other libraries and the administrative, fiscal, and service implications of such a system. Incorporation of the public library into the national information network as a multitype or unitype system is examined through a review of multitype systems in New York and…

The promise of cable, as a supplement or alternative to broadcast television, has been undermined in recent years by the emergence of one or two dominant organizations developing with the same profit motive as presently existing networks. (JMF)

Covers some general developments in circulation technology, vendor and network approaches to circulation, problem areas, and some hints on system procurement. (Author)

Recommends ways to alleviate the psychological, political, funding, communication, and planning problems which have blocked the full participation of schools in interlibrary networks. The roles of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and NCLIS's Task Force on the role of the school library media programs in networking are…

The futures of public libraries in the inter-library cooperation network is outlined. Also included is a challenge to public libraries to be in the forefront of cooperation in order to provide expanded information services. (Author)

Communication is only one of the elements in successful inter-library services; also needed are a foundation in mutual support and an agenda for action. The St. Louis (Missouri) Public Library program is described, and pertinent literature is cited. (Author/MB R)

The information needs of developing countries engaged in the process of industrilization are indicated, and some practical suggestions offered for developing a national industrial information center. (MBR)

Computerized conferencing is defined, its advantages and disadvantages summarized, and its usefulness in project and crisis management reviewed. (MBR)

This article examines library use studies as the most valid measure of any item's worth to a library or information system: use remains the primary criterion for retention. It is essential that libraries differentiate in their statements of institutional goals between archival and library/information system responsibility. (Author/AWP)