All facilities of the Ministry of Communications of Korea, which monopolizes telecommunications services in the country, are listed and described. Both domestic facilities, including long-distance telephone and telegraph circuits, and international connections are included. Computer facilities are also listed. The nation's regulatory policies are…

A plan is presented for a long-range research program, the objective of which will be to identify technical information problems and policies relating to Federal libraries and information services, to determine priorities among those issues requiring attention, and to develop research designs for each project recommended. The program is presented…

The major dimensions of interlibrary cooperation which have implications for manpower development in librarianship are identified, categorized and described. These dimensions include: (1) the "power budget" of a cooperative; that is, the capability of a cooperative as represented by its structure, resources, and decision-making processes to…

This study compared the effectiveness of lecture presentations through the use of Educational Telephone Network (ETN) and face-to-face situations of conventional district inservice training meetings for county Extension agents and explored implications for the selection of inservice training media. County staff units were randomly assigned to ETN,…

This publication is a sample issue of a new reference publication "designed to meet the growing demand for substantial, timely coverage of the literature dealing with the interfaces of linguistics, computation, information science, and related fields." Prepared by the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS) at the Center for…

This survey, performed under the authority of the New York State Library Services Plan Act, Project 30, 1964-1965, was conducted to determine the System's reference needs, including book, personnel and building requirements. Emphasis was to be placed on Rockland County and its libraries, and these requirements were to be related to the development…

This part of the final report provides an historical context for a state technical information system by reviewing prior work toward establishment of state-wide cooperation among libraries, with particular emphasis on service to business and industry. It then outlines a network schematic which incorporates both geographic groupings and specialty…

Counseling center efforts to establish and maintain relevant effectiveness in the services they offer, must be based on valid and reliable feedback from critical sources. Record keeping and data collection are the procedures by which this feedback can be acquired if they are designed to answer questions and do not become ends in themselves. A…

The viability of organizational change depends on the gradual institutionalization of innovations. There has been a history of planned social change in medical library organization. Stress was being felt in that library agencies could not meet user expectations. With the Medical Library Assistance Act, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) was…

Visits were conducted to 20 libraries, networks, or services in the United States, Great Britain, and Scandinavia to study the facilities and management techniques involved in the automation of cataloging and/or acquisitions departments. Of the total number of visits, 3 were made to public library situations, 3 to commercial services, and 16 to…

This paper briefly describes the organization of a "data bank" containing research on communication networks, specifies the kinds of information compiled about various network properties, discusses some specific results of the work done to date, and presents some general conclusions about the overall project and its potential advantages to…

This manual is designed to facilitate the use of the Iowa Library Information Teletype Exchange (I-LITE) in participating libraries. It briefly describes I-LITE as a system designed to provide for a thorough search of the participating libraries' collections through the use of a public library wheel network and an academic wheel network. It then…

This study was commissioned to delineate the role of resource and bibliographic centers in the national network of library and information services proposed by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. As background material, an overview of existing centers was constructed from earlier interlibrary loan studies; small surveys…

A descriptive summary is given of the technical characteristics of existing computer networks, including data communication technology and configuration related to support of resource sharing services for a computer network. Included are discussions of terminal support capabilities for the communications network and a development of relevant…

This document is a prospectus for a program of the National Education Association (NEA) to establish a network of teacher centers. The prospectus is divided into three parts: part one attempts to answer 10 general questions about the NEA teacher center program; part two contains information briefs for options I and II; and part three contains…