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Dennis, Jack – 1970
Some of the organizational requirements for the establishment of a network of interlinked information services are discussed in this paper. In particular, the analysis concerns the relation of social science data banks to libraries and related organizations. These problems are approached from the standpoint of a director of a social science data…
Descriptors: Archives, Conferences, Databases, Information Networks
Dunn, Donald A. – 1970
Telecommunications planning is viewed as a decision problem in which a decision maker must select among several alternative telecommunication systems with different costs and performance characteristics. In some cases the decision will involve comparison of alternatives with outcomes that involve the behavioral responses of users to the system,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Decision Making, Information Networks, Library Cooperation
Samuelson, Kjell A. H. W. – 1970
The future paths of research and development towards world-wide, automated information networks in full operation are examined. From international networked planning and projects under way it appears that exploratory as well as normative approaches have been taken. To some extent adequate technolgical facilities have already come into existence…
Descriptors: Automation, Conferences, Information Networks, Information Systems
Stevenson, Grace Thomas – 1969
In 1965 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington enacted the Interstate Library Compact, based on the Interstate Compact Law approved by the United States Congress for uniform application to all the states. The Compact authorizes the establishment of interstate library districts which include the territory of the one or more states signatory to the contract.…
Descriptors: Interstate Programs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Services
Marland, S. P., Jr. – 1972
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.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Computers, Educational Technology, Educational Television
Fasana, Paul J., Ed.; Veaner, Allen, Ed. – 1971
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…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Conference Reports, Library Automation
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1976
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.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Networks

Olson, Paul E. – Special Libraries, 1976
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)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Research

Galloway, R. Dean – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1979
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.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks

Casey, Genevieve M. – Library Quarterly, 1978
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…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Organizational Change
Markuson, Barbara Evans – American Libraries, 1978
Covers some general developments in circulation technology, vendor and network approaches to circulation, problem areas, and some hints on system procurement. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Equipment, Guidelines, Librarians
Fite, Alice – American Libraries, 1978
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…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Role

Imhoff, Kathleen R. T. – Catholic Library World, 1978
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)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Futures (of Society), Information Dissemination, Library Networks

Burns, Robert W., Jr. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1978
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)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Library Networks, State of the Art Reviews

Cooke, Michael – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1977
Suggestions are made for solving problems in current computerized cooperative library networks. (KP)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Futures (of Society), Libraries, Library Automation