Presents an assessment of the job market and salaries for children's librarians. Discusses the necessity for relevant education and job experience, and offers essential advice for librarians planning careers in youth services: do your research; build a network of colleagues; don't stay in a job you don't like; learn to compromise; and be positive.…

Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) can be used as a nucleus of a network fostering organizational learning within an organization. Presents a model for EPSS; explores three facets of the model: knowledge management, system design and individual behavior, and electronic communication. Outlines studies of computer use in the workplace.…

Identified the demographic profiles of community network users and examined how an individual's demographic characteristics affect use when perceptions and attitudes are taken into account. Suggests that findings could be used to assess whether a community network's primary goal, providing equal access to the Internet, is being achieved.…

Argues that accurate perception of informal networks can itself be a base of power, above and beyond power attributable to informal and formal structure positions. Those understanding the advice network of a small entrepreneurial firm were rated as more powerful by other organizational members. Accurate understanding of the friendship network was…

AgriData is an agricultural information and communications network designed for use by anyone with an interest in agriculture. It includes a business information service, statistics service, used equipment information, product information, an electronic mail service, and an online file service. (JOW)

Colleges are participating in a gifts-in-kind program bid for a wide range of equipment and supplies through a clearinghouse that solicits donations. Member colleges barter with points for corporate giveaways announced in a weekly bulletin. Institutions get bargains and immediate delivery and companies can dispose of surplus efficiently. (MSE)

Discusses leadership skills necessary for coping with the great institutional systems holding our society together. Leaders must grasp relationships to the larger realities beyond the system they are heading. Needed skills include agreement-building, networking, exercising nonjurisdictional or "insider" power, and institution-building. (MLH)

Five articles provide overviews of information networking activities at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland at Baltimore Health Sciences Library, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University. (MES)

Describes a LAN (local area network)-based automation project which has neared completion of the first phase of implementation at the Health Sciences Library of Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA). Changes in the library and its objectives with increased technological experience are examined. Diagrams of the current LAN configuration and…

PHARMLINE, the electronic bulletin board operated by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, is described. Bulletin boards do not provide the opportunity for file and message transfer throughout the continent and overseas, as does BITNET, the network link among universities. (Author/MLW)

Describes a public use microcomputer cluster at the University of Maine, Orono. Various network topologies, hardware and software options, installation problems, system management, and performance are discussed. (MES)

Discusses the use of telecommunications in museums; reviews existing museum documentary databases, including those that are accessible from remote locations; describes the RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archive) project, a computer network linking image documentary databases of seven European museums; and discusses the outlook for electronic…

Discusses current LAN (local area network) configuration and explains ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) as the future telecommunications transport. Highlights include LAN emulation, which enables the interconnection of legacy LANs and the new ATM environment; virtual LANs; broadcast servers; and standards. (LRW)

Describes gateway systems that can be used to access intergovernmental organization (IGO) information via the Internet, especially IGOs belonging to or affiliated with the United Nations. Highlights include United Nations World Wide Web Site, United Nations Gopher, the World Wide Web Virtual Library, and the Library of Congress's MARVEL Gopher.…

States that the High Technology High School (New Jersey) utilizes a technologically advanced communications network to enrich relations among teachers, students, parents, and administration. Finds that tools used included expanded use of telephones and televisions. Suggests that Wide Area Networks and Local Area Networks are a new source of…