THEINTLKLIBK~UIYI OAN PROCESS AT SOLTHERN UNIVERSITY, ILLIKOIS Carbondale, has undergone a major redesign since the late 1980s. Central to the redesign has been a move toward empowering patron3 by providing them with choice arid responsibility. In 1994, the library began facilitating unmediated borrowing from the forty-eight other members of a statewide library consortium through a $hared onlin...

Department Head: Dan Wilson, [email protected] [7], (434) 924-0193 Collection Development & Management Librarian: Jonathan Lord , [email protected] [8], (434) 924-0059 Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Specialist: Jeri Davis, [email protected] [9], (434) 924-0058 Southwest Virginia Outreach Librarian: Ann Duesing, [email protected] [10], (276) 328-0168 Metadata Services Manager: Abbey Hefli...

In the last 20 yearn, information science and technology have revolutionized the way researchers use the literature. We have described how many of the newer information systems have radically transformed the retrieval of bibliographic information. Indeed, it is safe to say that the ancient problem of “bibliographic control” has been solved. 1 Citation indexing, keyword indexing, and online acce...

The Medical Library and Media Center at Keio University in Tokyo offers many facilities to its users: access to medical information within a large catalog of monographs and journals, online searching and CD-ROM databases, and a dynamic interlibrary loan service. This article is a report of a professional visit to the library on September 30, 1993.

Department Head: Dan Wilson, [email protected] [7], (434) 924-0193 Collection Development & Management Librarian: Jonathan Lord , [email protected] [8], (434) 924-0059 Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Specialist: Jeri Davis, [email protected] [9], (434) 924-0058 Southwest Virginia Outreach Librarian: Ann Duesing, [email protected] [10], (276) 328-0168 Metadata Services Manager: Abbey Hefli...