Contents: the linked systems project: implications for library automation and networking; the impact of advances in telecommunications on library and information systems; classification in the online catalog; bibliographic accessibility of machine-readable data files-including mainframe and microcomputer software; online systems and the management of collections: use and aplications; the organization of academic libraries in the light of automation; trends in the development of state networks; cooperative collection development among research libraries in the age of networking: report of a survey of arl libraries.