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Diebler, Mary – Electronic Library, 1984
Briefly describes various types of telecommunication technologies--cable communications (video and nonvideo uses), instructional television fixed service (provides video programing within a 50-mile radius), satellite communications (links in providing nationwide communications)--and explores their applications in libraries. Libraries and…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Educational Television, Futures (of Society)

Buckingham, Sarah – Education Libraries, 1985
Defines criteria applicable to implementation of end-user online searching service in academic education library (ease of use, flexibility, administrative ease, security, compatibility with available equipment) and describes systems in four categories--software (front ends, downloaded subsets), gateways, user friendly vendors, and straight vendor…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Databases, Higher Education

Bossers, Anton; Van Muyen, Martin – Electronic Library, 1984
Describes the Pica Library Automation Network (originally the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation), which is based on a centralized bibliographic database. Highlights include the Pica conception of library automation, online shared cataloging system, circulation control system, acquisition system, and online Dutch union catalog with…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Foreign Countries, Library Acquisition
Davis, Marvin – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1984
Describes technological services provided by regional media centers, which generally serve more than one school district--reservation systems, reference, interactive video, computer-related uses, earth stations, microwave and slow-scan television, audio and video duplication, slide and film reproduction, printing, inspection of films and…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Education Service Centers, Educational Media
Dodson, Suzanne C., Ed.; Menges, Gary L., Ed. – 1984
The 56 papers in this proceedings are divided into three groups--theme, alternative format, and contributed papers. Myths and realities are explored in the first group as they relate to university, college, community, and junior college libraries, and to private sector information utilities. The conference wrap-up session is included in this…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Proceedings