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Discusses the relevance of the OCLC/AMIGOS CACD in a library environment of budget and staff cuts, and increased service demands. Considers the uses of the CACD as a collection‐analysis tool, the system itself, the three levels of analysis available, and the technical specifications of the hardware and software required to run the CACD. Concludes that the benefits of the CACD lie in allowing detailed bibliographical analyses to be performed quickly, saving staff time and stress in under‐funded libraries.

Over the past eight years, the MELVYL catalog has become one of the largest public access catalogs in the world, and now plays a central role in providing access to the library resources of the University of California. Currently, under heavy load, the MELVYL catalog supports many hundreds of simultaneous terminal connections, servicing over a quarter of a million queries a week and displaying more than two million records a week to its user community. This article discusses the history of the network that has supported the MELVYL catalog from the early days of its prototype to the present. It also describes both the current technical and policy issues that must be addressed as the network moves into the 1990s, and the roles that the network is coming to play in integrating local automation, the union catalog, access to resource databases, and other initiatives. Sidebars discuss the TCP/IP protocol suite, internet protocol gateways, and Telenet and related inter‐operability problems.

This bibliography of recent articles is the result of a survey of the literature on in‐house systems for the year 1982. The articles and monographs included were selected to provide the latest information on systems in existence or being planned by libraries of all types: academic, public, special and school.

INTRODUCTION Computers and new information technologies have beyond question brought tremendous advancement in information storage and retrieval. In recent years, the traditional card catalog has given way first to the COM (computer output on microform) catalog, then to the online catalog. Now, many libraries are shifting to the new capability in order to provide better and faster services to their patrons.

A conference can range from good to bad. It can be well or poorly organized, comfortably or indifferently housed, a profitable or wasted use of time. If conferences were rated like hotels and stars indicated their merit, the one held in Munich at the end of October should be awarded the maximum number.