Surveys cooperative library projects of the past 75 years in the United States. (PF)

A recent study says that the state hasn't been giving public library systems enough money, that system development has lacked coordination and system planning falls far short of the mark, that interlibrary loan and reference service take too much time and are too costly, and that system personnel need more training. (Author/PF)

Discussion of a proposal to establish educational media selection centers, which would be depositories of materials which educators, librarians, and others could examine for selection purposes. (LS)

A member of the British delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Planning of National Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures (Paris, September 1974) gives his views on the results of the conference and its implications for the future development of national information systems. (Author/PF)

Intended to encourage the appropriate and informed use of resource sharing mechanisms and services through the establishment of common policies and procedures throughout Indiana, this manual brings together in one document a description of current resource sharing activities in the state, codifies general practices, and provides guidelines based…

Compiled from information supplied by the California State Library and by the ten library systems served by the Bay Area Reference Center, this directory covers indexes generated by libraries, as well as special collections and large subject collections in Northern California libraries. The main section of the publication is arranged alphabeticaly…

This bibliography, which was prepared for use by participants in a series of ten workshops on the "Effective Use of OCLC," includes some of OCLC's own documentation and training materials, news items from the literature citing landmark events in the network's growth, and research studies analyzing OCLC application and/or implementation.…

This historical review considers the rise of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) system of libraries since its inception in 1945. Sections detail the following: (1) background; (2) tasks of the state organs in the development of the library network, with attention to legislation, planning, and management of the system; (3) role of the GDR…

This paper describes the first two months of operation of the OCLC interlibrary loan system, an online system designed to increase speed and effectiveness in obtaining interlibrary loans. This system provides (1) bibliographic verification of interlibrary loan records and location of materials by using online union catalog records, (2) automatic…

This report covers functional specifications for the OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Subsystem, designed to permit participating libraries to increase the availability of library resources to patrons by enabling these libraries to form, transmit, and fulfill loan requests more rapidly and effectively. It will provide rapid access to a large on-line…

This report is an evaluation of an interlibrary loan system that was put into operation for a 6-month experimental period beginning January 1, 1978, by the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System (CAMLS), a regional cooperative network of 19 public, academic, and special libraries in northern Ohio. The objective of the system was to increase…

This glossary was developed to fill the need for a commonality of vocabulary for the persons from diverse fields--computer experts, librarians, telecommunications engineers--who are working together in the relatively new field of library networking. The criteria for the inclusion of a term require that it be in current use relative to library…

J. Kenneth Benson's political economy model for interlibrary cooperation identifies linkages and describes interactions between the environment, the interlibrary organization, and member libraries. A tentative general model for interlibrary organizations based on the Benson model was developed, and the fit of this adjusted model to the realities…

The four primary goals of these cost and funding studies are described: (1) to determine representative costs of present library services without network support; (2) to estimate future costs of library services at various levels of proposed network support; (3) to evaluate and compare the impact of a network upon costs of library services; and…

This questionnaire was issue to 12 western libraries to provide data for in-depth case studies of costs of technical processing and interlibrary loan. An additional 88 libraries received a somewhat shorter questionnaire as part of the same survey, which was designed to determine representative costs of library services without network services,…