Foreword / Kenneth M. King -- Introduction / Patricia Battin -- The technological context / Caroline Arms -- OCLC Online Computer Library Center / Michel McGill and Drew Racine -- The Research Libraries Group / David Richards -- Northwestern University / John P. McGowan, Karen L. Horny and Betsy Baker -- Clemson University / George D. Alexander and Richard W. Meyer -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / William H. Mischo [and others] -- Brigham Young University Law Library / David A. Thomas -- Georgia Institute of Technology / Miriam A. Drake -- University of Southern California / Margaret L. Johnson, Peter Lyman and Philip Tompkins -- Columbia University / Paula T. Kaufman -- Cornell University, Mann Library / Jan Kennedy Olsen -- Carnegie Mellon University / William Y. Arms and Thomas J. Michalak -- Johns Hopkins University, Welch Medical Library / Nina W. Matheson [and others] -- Other projects and progress / Caroline Arms -- The context for the future / Caroline Arms.