Presented at a symposium instigated to improve the accessibility and usefulness of educational technology, the five invited papers presented in this proceedings deal with various aspects of information systems and their relationship to each other. Topics covered were "Educational Technologists as Consumers of Educational Information", "Information Services in Practice", "The Use of Query in Multi-facet Indexing of Information Materials", "The Exeter Abstract Reference System in Higher Education", and "Qualified Citation Indexing--Its Relevance to Educational Technology." Each paper is accompanied by an invited structured response. Also included in the report are responses of participants invited to complete a practical exercise on identifying individual needs in information retrieval, and summaries of the discussions pertinent to that exercise, and to the theme of the symposium. (MER)