New Information Technologies and Libraries

I. Introduction.- Editorial.- The Western Information Theory.- Commission of the European Communities - Information Market and Innovation.- NATO: Civil Science and Environmental Programmes.- European Parliament - Committee on Youth, Culture, Education, Information and Sport.- Council of Europe - Directorate for Education, Culture, and Sport.- European Cultural Foundation.- IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).- II. Infrastructures for Library Cooperation.- Towards a European Council of Research Libraries.- The Development and Present. Program of the Council on Library Resources.- Explanatory Paper on the European Parliament's Resolution regarding the Creation of a European Library.- LIBER and Research Library Cooperation in Europe.- The Nordic Council for Scientific Information and Research Libraries.- III. Online Information Systems.- The Need for a Policy Framework for the Development of the Information Market.- Information Retrieval Networks compared to Library Networks in Europe.- Online Developments and their Impact on Libraries.- North American Developments in Online Information Systems.- OPAC: Online Public Access Catalogue.- IV. Library Cooperation.- Research Library Cooperation.- Project Proposals for Library Cooperation in Europe.- Overview of Trends and Developments of Library Networking in Europe.- Trends and Developments in North American Library Networks.- Development and Implementation of an Intelligent Gateway to Library Systems.- CLR's Network and online Catalog Projects: The BSDP.- The Creation of a Multi-Lingual Subject Heading Scheme based on the LCSH.- OCLC in Europe.- V. New Technologies.- The Electronic Library - A Vision for the Future.- Libraries and Electronic Document Delivery.- The Role of the Commission of the European Communities in the Promotion of Electronic Document Delivery in Europe.- A series of Surveys on the Application of New Technologies in European Libraries.- The Linked Systems Project: It's Implication for Resource Sharing.- Application of the Optical Disk by the Library of Congress.- VI. Education and Training.- Trends in Library Information Science Education and Training in Europe.- Trends in Library Education and Training in the USA.- Professional Education and Training for Research Librarianship: A Program of the Council on Library Resources.- Trends in Library Education and Training in Canada.- From Librarianship to Information Management; The Development of a Postgraduate Department of Information Studies.- Summer Schools in Library Automation for Library Scholars and Professionals from all types of Libraries.- VII. Conclusions and Recommendations.- Management and Policy Aspects of the European Council for Research Libraries (ECRL).- Programme Recommendations for ECRL.- European Library Cooperation.- Intercontinental Cooperation.- European New Technology Initiatives.- Education and Training.- Achievements so far - Perspectives for future developments.- List of Workshop Participants.- Workshop Programme.