The Northern Colorado Educational Board of Cooperative Services (NCEBOCS) Information Retrieval Center is designed to provide a communications link for teachers, librarians, and administrators with the latest research, resources and materials in the field of education. The Information Retrieval Center also provides school personnel who contact the Center with ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) abstracts and summaries in the form of printouts from the computer. With the UNIVAC 9400 Computer inhouse, the range and type of automated retrieval services have expanded to include newly developed products and training programs for product implementation and utilization. The Wave I Six State Retrieval Network, involving Colorado, Utah, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming, continues to be served by the information retrieval products on an ever-expanding basis. Services were extended through State Departments of Education and/or Regional Centers to include the States of Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas and Montana. The growth and development of the Information Retrieval Center and the regional and nation-wide interest generated by this system is measured by the increase in the number of searches processed during F.Y. 1972. (Author/NH)