...Norm Medeiros Purpose – This article aims to describe three recent books that forecast the future of libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The article focuses on the transformative changes taking place in collections and technical services. Findings – The article finds that open...

... new technologies, equipment and practice in their everyday work, to be able to successfully answer challenges of digitization and preservation of audiovisual material. Findings The public libraries should pay attention to their old collections of audio tapes, VHS, Betamax and other media nowadays...

...Martha Childers Reports on the implementation and use of the OCLC GOVDOC, the online service providing cataloguing for federal government documents,and finding cost‐efficient and productive means by which to use the records. Describes matching the GOVDOC records with Library of Congress collection...