Library networks place a demand on the reference librarian to know the potential of all information resources within the network. (PF)

Discussed are recent library developments in Canada, main problems at the national level, and efforts by the federal government to develop a better integrated national information network. (SJ)

Discussed are the past, present and future developments of the national library network in Great Britain. (5 references) (SJ)

Having multiple media existing and functioning concurrently may lead to more highly individualized uses and greater flexibility and creativeness in user adaptation. (MM)

Briefly describes the origin and development of some major online bibliographic utilities, including the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), the University of Toronto Library Automation Systems (UTLAS), and the Washington Library Network (WLN). (FM)

Presents a series of questions and answers pertaining to the relationship between the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and touches on matters of policy and linkages. (FM)

This second statewide public library systems directory includes 15 cooperative and three single jurisdiction library systems organized under the California Library Services Act (CLSA) together with their associated library networks, and the regional reference centers or networks serving more than one system organized as demonstration projects…

The thesis of this paper is that efficient functioning of a network is dependent upon the organization of bibliographic services so that the basic record for each bibliographic item is created once. This record must be minimally capable of serving the needs of libraries, information centers, abstracting and indexing services, and national and…

Rather than presenting a historical review or an inventory of existing services, both of which are the subject of other papers, interlibrary loan is discussed as part of overall library objectives, and in the context of the provisions of the Interlibrary Loan Code. By discussing two examples of networks in some depth, an attempt is made to arrive…

The primary focus of this paper is on examining the inter-relationship of those parameters which affect the costs associated with various forms of telecommunications services. The basic limitation in the scope of this paper is that cost will be examined primarily in a relative sense rather than on an absolute basis. We feel that a summarization of…

The basic principles of narrow bandwidth telecommunications are treated in a manner understandable to the non-engineer. The comparative characteristics of the various narrow bandwidth communications circuits are examined. Currently available graphics transmission and reception equipment are described and their capabilities and limitations…

New technologies of information handling are going to produce fundamental changes in the social structure. If we accept the statement that the book "upset the educational monopoly of the Church," we inevitably wonder what monopolies may tumble in the electronic wake of the computer. We are not dealing with a simple difference of degree…

The Five Associated University Libraries (FAUL) is an example of a network which is not yet really a network in its own right: it is a free-loader on components of other networks, e.g. NYSILL, national ILL codes, TWX, telephone, UPS, U.S. Mails and the like. In fact, the organization could wake up one day and find all of its objectives met by…

This directory of institutions participating in the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) presents the following information for each: assigned OCLC symbol, institution name and address, affiliated network, classification scheme in use, and identification symbol assigned by Library of Congress. (SC)

URBIN, formed in February 1974, is an informal local level group of urban affairs librarians. (Author)