This contains papers delivered at this 1990 Canada conference. Topics range from resource sharing between the US and Canadian libraries to marketing to the Canadian library community, hardware issues for the coming decade and case studies of automation projects at major Canadian libraries. The papers here represent the reports and thoughts of 12 professionals from academic, national and special libraries, from library schools, as well as consultants and the Canadian automation vendor community. These contributions were presented at three separate occasions and have been grouped here in a thematic fashion.
Library computing in Canada - how is it different?, Francis T. Kirkwood;
the Canadian library automation marketplace, Bobbie Merrilees; marketing in
Canada - taking the context inot account, Bill Manson; automating the
National Library of Canada - issues and solutions, Leslie Weir; bilingual
library automation - a vendor's perspective of problems and solution, John
Richardson; hardware for the nineties - Intel processor based PCs, Eric
Flower; new opportunities for resource sharing via CA*NET and the INTERNET,
Carole Moore; Canada and the United States, resource sharing connections,
Carol D. Lunau and Donna J. Dinberg; institutional and international network
developments, Howard Curtis; resource sharing across the border, Debra
Wallace; borrowing and loaning across a common border - the case for more
interdependence, Leslie Morris.
