Seven papers making up Track V of the 1989 conference of the Professional Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education (known as CAUSE, an acronym of the association's former name) are presented in this document. The focus of Track V is on telecommunications and networking issues and the papers include: "Networking Ohio Colleges in Support of Statewide Economic and Human Resource Development Strategies" (Richard C. Decker et al.); "Reaching the Promised LAN" (John Bates and Gerry LeClerc); "Potential Impacts of the National Research and Education Network on Research Libraries and the Scholarly Community" (Nancy Allen and James F. Williams II); "National Networking Update: How It Affects Your Institution" (abstract of panel discussion); "Towards Negative Entropy: A Strategic Plan" (William J. Moressi et al.); "Changing World Brings Strategic Changes at Penn State" (Steve H. Updegrove and David L. Phillips); "Phase I of a Comprehensive Approach to the Planning and Design of a Multi-Purpose Fiber-Optic Cabling Plant" (Roger V. Bruszewski). An abstract is provided with most of these papers. (DB)