id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13311 Grundt, Leonard Library Networks, 1978-79 (Book Review) 1979-03-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 696 40 54 The eleven chapters deal concisely with such topics as: the growth and scope of net- working; uses and standards for machine- readable data; major computer utilities (OCLC, BALLOTS, UTLAS, and WLN); existing network organizations; commercial suppliers of services and systems; relations with hardware manufacturers, subcontractors, and consultants; selection, operation, and management of on-line systems; unsolved is- sues and problems in network development and implementation; planning for a national library information network; and merging tra- ditional library cooperatives with on-line sys- tems . There are policies on some new or unusual collections, such as women's studies, univer- sity archives, special collections, social wel- fare, radiation biophysics, other foreign lan- guages, museum of natural history, current fiction, and applied English. cache/crl-13311.pdf txt/crl-13311.txt