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The May 1985 program session of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee focused on the identification of key issues in the networking field. Presentations included discussions of major network developments in the last two decades, the changing network players, the impact of technology on networks, and library networks and the law. The introduction to this document includes a brief summary of major topics raised: network participants, the end user, legal issues, and the future of networking. The following papers are included in their entirety: (1) "Issues in National Library Network Development: An Overview" (Barbara E. Markuson); (2) "Networks: Changing Roles" (Susan K. Martin); (3) "The Impact of Technology on Library Networks and Related Organizations" (Ronald F. Miller); and (4) "Library Networks and the Law" (Noel E. Hanf). A list of conference attendees, a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations used in the submitted papers, summaries of the working group sessions and business sessions, and a conference agenda are included. (THC)

The December 1985 program session of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) focused on determining the effectiveness of networking, identifying a common vision or goal, and developing a strategy to accomplish that goal. The program session included remarks on the role of the regional networks in national networking by Louella V. Wetherbee; a consideration of RLG (Research Libraries Group) in a nationwide network by Richard F. McCoy; a discussion of state libraries in national networking by James A. Nelson; presentations by private sector representatives and local systems representatives; and an overview and comments by Ronald F. Miller. The following papers, included in their entirety, were also presented: (1) "A Common Vision--Networking for Networkers and Librarians" (JoAn S. Segal); (2) "The Nationwide Network and OCLC--A Vision and a Role" (Rowland C. W. Brown); (3) "National Libraries' Vision of the Nationwide Network and Their Role in That Network" (Henriette D. Avram, Lois Ann Colaianni, and Joseph H. Howard); and (4) "A User's View of Networking" (Barbara D. Cooper). Also included are a list of conference attendees and summaries of NAC questionnaire responses, working group discussions, and the business session. A definition of networking, basic premises underlying library networking, questions for the NAC, and the conference agenda are appended; and a 12-item bibliography is provided. (KM)

Twenty scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the sixteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2016 paper and abstract titles include: (1) Making Effective, Usable Research Guides (Joshua S. Welker); (2) The Beulah Williams Library Creation Lab: Creating a Technology Sandbox in an Academic Library (Lynn Klundt); (3) Establishing an Electronic Theses Repository using Digital Commons (Yumi Ohira and Deborah L. White); (4) Becoming the Center: Creating and Implementing a Unified Service Point (Michael Berry); (5) Developing a Research Proposal: Serendipity and Planning (Susan Sykes Berry, Marilyn Degeus, and Sarah Kartsonis); (6) Mentoring on Mars: Peering at the Landscape through a Variety of Lenses (Susan M. Frey and Valentine Muyumba); (7) Taking the ILS for a Walk on the Quad: Cross-Campus Collaborations for Tech Services (Kirsten Davis and Mary Ann Mercante); (8) How to Maintain Reserves through Departmental Cooperation (Hong Li and Kayla Reed); (9) Becoming the DH Team…Digital Humanities, Public History, and the Library (Amanda Langendoerfer and Janet Romine); (10) Celebrating International Students in the Library (Ayyoub Ajmi and Fu Zhuo); (11) Keeping in Step with the College"s Mission (Joyce Meldrem); (12) Catch Online Students by Design (Elise A. Blas, Gwen Wilson, and Jean V. Marshall); (13) 2015 Summer of Changes: Reducing Print Collection, Migrating to New ILS and Redesigning Space at Dibner Library of Science and Technology (Ana Torres and Gavin Paul); (14) Using Data to Drive Public Services Decisions (Cindy Thompson and Jen Salvo-Eaton); (15) A Practical Solution for Managing and Assessing Library Electronic Collections (Xiaocan (Lucy) Wang and Robert Black); (16) Library Space and Usage Studies Can Inform, Influence & Impact Our Buildings and Services (Dr. Susan Breakenridge Fink); (17) Pop-up Usability Testing--More Data, Less Time (and Money) (Kelley Martin); (18) Renovating Foundations: ArchivesSpace and Collections Management (Mary Ellen Ducey, Peterson Brink, and Stacy Rickel); (19) The Big Reveal: LibGuides Analytics and Why They Matter (Sarah E. Fancher and Jamie L. Emery); (20) Snap, Click, Chat: Investigating the International Student Experience (Melissa Burel and Sarah Park); (21) "But We"ve Always Done it This Way!": Managing Expectations of Blended Workforces (Nicholas Wyant and Melissa Mallon); (22) "I Got My Customer Service Badge!" Using Online Modules for Library Student Worker Training (Ashley Creek); (23) Singing a Different Tune: Moving the Traditional Cataloging Skill Set into non-MARC (Amanda Harlan); (24) Employing Students in Digitization: Leveraging Digital Projects as Valuable Learning Experiences (Christopher Jones); (25) Extreme Makeover: Information Literacy Edition (Abigail Broadbent and Rebecca Hamlett); (26) Make it Beautiful, Make it Usable: DIY Design for Librarians (Dani Wellemeyer and Jess Williams); (27) Winning the Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant: Strategies for Successful Grant Writing (Danielle Dion and Ashley Creek); (28) Confident Shifting for Complex Moves (Joshua Lambert); (29) Lost in the Stacks: Helping Undergraduate Students Navigate the Library Labyrinth (Andi Back); (30) Picking Favorites: Setting Up a Study Room Reservation System (Alissa V. Fial); (31) Building Instructional Labs for Tomorrow: Do Trees and Tablets Work (Stephen Ambra); (32) Implementing a Smartphone Scavenger Hunt at Mizzou Libraries (Goodie Bhullar, Rachel Brekhus, Rebecca Graves, Navadeep Khanal, Noël Kopriva, Kimberly Moeller, and Paula Roper); (33) Keeping the Baby AND the Bathwater: Supplementing Traditional ILL with an On-Demand Document Delivery Service (Rob Withers, Jennifer Bazeley, Susan Hurst, and Kevin Messner); (34) Innovating and Building New Things with Our Student Workers (Ayyoub Ajmi); and (35) Creating Without Crunching: Library Interactive Map (Adedoyin Adenuga). An author/title index is also included. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2015 proceedings, see ED561244.]

The papers in this proceedings consider ways in which user friendly interface design may be used to make online systems in public and academic libraries easier to use, and thus more attractive to potential users. A short introduction by F. W. Lancaster is followed by nine papers: (1) "Linking the Unlinkable" (Michael Gorman); (2) "Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog: Part 1" (Ward Shaw); (3) "Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog: Part 2" (Ken Dowlin); (4) "Toward a Definition of User Friendliness: A Psychological Perspective" (Christine L. Borgman); (4) "Is 'User Friendly' Really Possible in Library Automation?" (Dale K. Carrison); (5) "User Interfaces for Online Library Catalogs" (Emily Gallup Fayen); (6) "Taming the Unfriendly System: Microcomputers as Patron Terminals to Access an Online Catalog" (Gary A. Golden); (7) "Natural Language User Interfaces in Information Retrieval" (Tamas E. Doszkocs); (8) "Design Issues in Automatic Translation for Online Information Retrieval Systems" (David E. Toliver); and (9) "User Friendly Future: Applications of New Information Technology" (Linda C. Smith). Seven of the papers include bibliographic references. (EW)

This proceedings of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) contains the opening address by IATUL president Nancy Fjallbrant and the full text of the following papers: "Building Info-Skills by Degrees: Embedding Information Literacy in University Study" (Wendy Abbott and Deborah Peach); "UQ Library's First CIS: Towards Customising Information Services at the University of Queensland Library" (Ruth Foxlee and Karen Borchardt); "Education for Information Literacy in Czech Technical Universities" (Vladimir T. Borovansky); "Information Literacy for the Skeptical Library Director" (Patricia S. Breivik); "Forward with Imagination: Innovative Library Client Services for the 21st Century" (Alan Bundy); "After the Fireworks: Opportunities and Directions for University Libraries" (Alex Byrne); "Watch Our Lips! New Skills and Services for the Knowledge Age" (Penny Carnaby); "The Yields of Growing Professional Partnerships" (Sandra Lawrence and Pauline Fountain); "Creating Information Structures that Work for the New Millennium" (Heather Gordon); "Facing the Challenges of Transition: The Next Generation Library" (Nancy V. Green); "Virtual Libraries: Interactive Support Software and an Application in Chaotic Models" (Anthi Katsirikou, Christos Skiadas, Apostolos Apostolou, Giannis Rompogiannakis); "The Academic Library in the 21st Century--What Need for a Physical Place?" (Helen King); "Navigating the Information Society" (Joyce Kirk); "Value Not Virtual--One Library's Response to the Virtual Campus" (Sue McKnight); "Does the Virtual Campus Demand a Virtual Library? Library Leadership Response to Big Hairy Audacious Goals" (James G. Neal); "Virtual Libraries: Service Realities" (Jan Novak); "In Technology We Trust--A Perspective from up North" (Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen); "The Virtual Campus: Impact on Teaching and Learning" (Janice Rickards); "Strategies for Working with Library Staff Members in Embracing Change Caused by Library Automation" (Murray Shepherd); "Information Literacy--Collaboration between the University of Pretoria and the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education" (Jane Elizabeth Thompson); "Information Literacy in Electronic Environments Fantasies, Facts, and Futures" (Ross Todd); and "Developing IT Literacy Levels among Library Staff in a Networked Environment, at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg, South Africa" (Julie Wilcocks and Clare Walker). Abstracts of four additional papers are also included. (MES)

The eight papers in this collection were presented at an Association of College and Research Libraries workshop held in September 1988 in Buffalo, New York. The papers are as follows: (1) "Making Real Changes: Course Integrated Instruction and Its Impact, a Case Study" (Joan Ormondroyd); (2) "Dual Function Positions: A View from the Trenches" (Amy L. Paster); (3) "Faculty Status, Longevity, and Salaries among Librarians in LIBRAS" (Jonathan D. Lauer, Edward W. Meachen, and Donald H. Dilmore); (4) "A New Twist on an Old Theme" (Honey Marchetti); (5) "New York State Periodical Index" (Judith Jennejahn and Margaret Rich); (6) "Physical Condition of the Collections at E. H. Butler Library, State University College at Buffalo: Report of a Survey" (Mary Lee C. Xanco and Kathleen Quinlivan); (7) "The Role of Practising Librarians in Library Education" (Gillian M. McCombs); and (8) "What Does Copyright Have To Do with My Teaching Activities? What Is Fair Use? What Is an Anthology?" (Stuart Milligan). Lists of Western New York/Ontario chapter officers for 1987-88 and 1988-89 are included. (MES)

Twelve reports comprise this collection from the 1989 Arizona State Association Conference: (1) "CD ROMs Teach Online Searching" (Susan Awe); (2) "Collection Development as Intellectual Activity: An East Asian Specialist's View" (Ju-yen Teng); (3) "Computer-Assisted Reference Service in Map Librarianship: Electronic Access to Cartographic Information" (Charlene M. Baldwin and Jack D. Mount); (4) "Crossing Borders: From Slip Catalog to OPAC" (Margaret F. Maxwell); (5) "Expanding the Borders of Educated America: The Librarian's Role in Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students" (Jeanne L. Pfander); (6) "From Equal Opportunity to Affirmative Action: Changing Hiring Practices at the University of Arizona" (Merri Hartse, Atifa Rawan, and Roger Scanland); (7) "Going Offline (sort of): The Impact and Implications of CD-ROM and PAC Databases as Online Alternatives" (George Machovec and Dennis Brunning); (8) "Homage to Melvil Dewey: The Need for Library Standards in Archival Description" (Robert P. Spindler); (9) "Interdepartmental Cooperation--Making the University of Arizona Library Stronger" (Janet S. Fore and R. Cecilia Knight); (10) "Library Express: The Establishment of an Across-Campus Document Delivery Service" (Sheila Walters); (11) "A Model for Resource Sharing" (Janice Bradley); and (12) "Researching Interdisciplinary Topics Online: A Methodology for Evaluating Databases" (Karen Williams and Ruth Dickstein). (SD)

The 21 papers in this collection were presented at the meetings of two sections and three round tables of the Division of Education and Research: (1) "Library and Information Services in Culturally Diverse Communities" (Cheryl Metoyer-Duran); (2) "Library Education in a Pluralistic Society" (Shmuel Sever); (3) "Each One an Individual: International Students in United States Library and Information Science Programs" (Julie Tallman); (4) "Instructing the User or Improving the System: Research and User Feedback for Interactive Library Catalogues" (Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu); (5) "La investigacion bibliotecologia en Mexico: por que, y para que" (Librarianship Research in Mexico: The Why and the What For) (Estela Morales); (6) "Scholars Seek Information: Information Seeking Behaviour and Information Needs of Humanities Scholars" (Harriet Lonnqvist); (7) "Bringing Rural Librarianship to Canada in the 1930s" (Maxine K. Rochester); (8) "Literacy and Reading in Iceland" (Darlene E. Weingand): (9) "Development in Reading in Yugoslavia" (Durda Mesic); (10) "The Possibility of Comparative Study on Children's and Young People's Reading Habits" (Jadwiga Hildengarda Kolodziejska); (11) "The Serial 'Librarianship and Bibliography Abroad' within the Professional Library Press System in the USSR" (Olga A. Diakonova and Olga V. Timokhina); (12) "The Study Circle Library in a Historical Perspective" (Lars Arvidson); (13) "In Search of the Informed Citizen: Study Circles as Bridges between Libraries and Learning" (Kenneth Abrahamsson); (14) "Need and Priority Areas for Continuing Education for Sub and Professional Information, Library and Archives Personnel in Tanzania" (Julita Nawe); (15) "The Continuum of Library Education: Maintaining Competence through the Professional Worklife" (Darlene E. Weingand); (16) "Continuing Education: An Australian Perspective" (Fay Nicholson and Angela Bridgland); (17) "Distance Education in Library and Information Science Education" (Fred W. Roper); (18) "Open and Distance Learning in Continuing Education" (Borje Holmberg); (19) "CPE (Continuing Professional Education) on the Management of Change in Academic and Research Libraries" (Riitta Makinen); (20) "U.S. Government Support for Continuing Professional Education for Librarians" (Anne J. Mathews and Thomas C. Phelps); and (21) "Adult Learning in Study Circles" (Henry Blid). (MAB)