A compact atlas--"Information Highways: Mapping Information Delivery Networks in the Pacific Northwest"--provides a model for assimilating large volumes of information dealing with generic topics. It combines data and information blocks with information technology graphics blocks and maps showing the actual locations of information…

The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a program of the New England Board of Higher Education which was initially funded by the National Science Foundation, represents an attempt to apply on a regional basis the concept of brokerage or wholesaling to the provision of computer-based information services. The center expects to be…

Intermountain Community Learning and Information Centers are the result of work begun in 1977 by Utah State University and are based on use of rural libraries in a new information and education function. Support from the Western Rural Development Center permitted the Cooperative Extension Services, state libraries, and continuing educators from…