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Reports that New York Public Library has announced a Charles A. Dana Foundation grant which will enable it to further advance its conversion to an online system for catalog access. Description of the CATNYP system developed by CARLYLE Inc.; Installation of CARLYLE systems at other universities.

Focuses on an all day seminar, which includes vendor/user presentations of online public access catalogs in the New York City area, slated by METRO, the New York area reference consortium, to be held on May 13, 1985. Topics of the presentations; Itinerary of the program; Focus of the seminar.

Presents the findings of a survey conducted by the New York State library in Albany, New York on the impact of online catalog on users. Sustenance of catalog use; Increase in the uses to visits ratio of catalogs; Rise in subject searching by visitors; Drop in library staff subject searching; Decline in the use of microfiche catalog; Drop in the success rate of catalog searches; Other findings.