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scripts, microfilms, audiovisual materials, tape recordings, computer tapes, etc. It also provides information services to requesters from its own and from outside resources.

Multistate Affiliations

Regional arrangements (by informal agreement, compact, or by contract) among states or statewide agencies to pursue common library and information programs.

National

Refers to interests that transcend local, state, and regional concerns. The term is also used to refer to organizations whose operations embody or serve these broader interests.

National Bibliographic Center

A place where the basic record for each bibliographic item is created (or verified) and held to serve the full range of needs of libraries, information centers, abstracting and indexing services, and national and trade bibliographies.

National Lending Library

A central library, within a country, responsible for acquiring at least one copy of a prescribed class of material and making it available to other libraries by loan or photocopy service.

National Plan

The phased schedule by which the National Program is implemented to meet its program objectives.

National Program

An organized and articulated statement prepared to provide for the coherent development of library and information activities in the United States to meet the needs of its people. Nationwide

That which extends throughout the country.

Network

Two or more libraries and/or other organizations engaged in a common pattern of information exchange, through communications, for some functional purpose. A network usually consists of a formal arrangement whereby materials, information, and services provided by a variety of types of libraries

and/or other organizations are made available to all potential users. (Libraries may be in different jurisdictions but agree to serve one another on the same basis as each serves its own constituents. Computers and telecommunications may be among the tools used for facilitating communication among them.)

On-line Retrieval Services

Retrieval services involving direct interactive communication between the user at a terminal and the computer programmed to provide access to one or more data bases.

Private Sector

Organizations not directly tax supported. Includes organizations outside of government such as profit-making companies and not-for-profit institutions, which produce, process, store, or disseminate information.

Public Sector

Organizations directly tax supported.

Regional Resource Center

An institution especially chartered to provide a common service to a cooperative of libraries in differing political jurisdictions. Software

The intellectual instructions-such as a computer program— which govern machine operations.

State Library Agency

The official agency of a state charged by the law of that state with the extension and development of public library services throughout the state. This agency has adequate authority under the law of the state to administer state plans in accordance with the provisions of the Library Services and Construction Act, and is generally responsible for statewide planning and coordination of cooperative library and information services. System

An organization of people, machines, material resources, and procedures, designed to accomplish a given purpose or set of purposes. A system may exist within a library or information activity, or it may exist when two or more library or informa

tion activities agree to participate in a common service program utilizing their resources.

Telecommunication

The exchange of information by electrical transmission.

Telefacsimile

See Facsimile.

User

Any individual or group with a desire, no matter how casual or how serious, to use libraries and information facilities.

Listing of Related Papers

1. Relationship and Involvement of the State Library Agencies with the National Program Proposed by NCLIS— Alphonse F. Trezza, Director, Illinois State Library

2. Role of the Public Library in the National ProgramAllie Beth Martin, Director, Tulsa City/County Library System

3. The Relationship and Involvement of the Special Library with the National Program-Edward G. Strable, Manager, Information Services, J. Walter Thompson CompanyChicago

4. The Independent Research Library-William S. Budington, Executive Director and Librarian, The John Crerar Library

5. The Information Service Environment Relationships and Priorities-Paul G. Zurkowski, President, Information Industry Association

6. Manpower and Educational Programs for Management, Research, and Professional Growth in Library and Information Services-Robert S. Taylor, Dean, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

7. School Library Media Programs and the National Program for Library and Information Services-Bernard M. Franckowiak, School Library Supervisor, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

8. National Program of Library and Information Services of NCLIS: Implication for College and Community College Libraries Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association

9. The National Library Network, Its Economic Rationale and Funding-Robert M. Hayes, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California

10. Intellectual Freedom and Privacy: Comments on a National Program for Library and Information ServicesR. Kathleen Molz, Chairman, Intellectual Freedom Committee, American Library Association

11. International Library and Information Service Develop

ments as they Relate to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science-Foster E. Mohrhardt, Former President, Association of Research Libraries and American Library Association

12. An Economic Profile of the U.S. Book Industry-Curtis G. Benjamin, Consultant, McGraw Hill, Inc.

13. The Role of the Information Center in the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Program for the Improvement of National Information Services-Herman M. Weisman, Manager, Information Services, National Bureau of Standards

14. The Relationship of the Government and the Private Sector in the Proposed National Program-David Carvey, Vice President, Disclosure, Inc.

15. New Federal Authority and Locus of ResponsibilityJohn Bystrom, Professor of Communication, University of Hawaii

16. Relationship and Involvement of the Multi-State Library and Information Community with the National Program for Library and Information Services-Maryann Duggan, Director, Continuing Education and Library Resources Program-WICHE

17. The Future of Federal Categorical Library Programs— Robert Frase, Consulting Economist

18. Availability and Accessibility of Government Publications in the National Program for Library and Information Services-Bernard Fry, Dean, Graduate Library School, Indiana University

19. Cost Comparisons of Alternative Bibliographic Access Systems Saul Herner, President, Herner and Company 20. University Libraries and the National Program for Li

brary and Information Services-John McDonald, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries

21. Federal Libraries and Information Centers-James Riley 22. Quantitative Data Required to Support and Implement a

National Program for Library and Information ServicesTheodore Samore, School of Library Science, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

23. Urban Information Centers and their Interface with the National Program for Library and Information ServicesJane E. Stevens, Library Science Department, Queens College

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