Online Public Access Catalogs: Linking OPACs: Policy Issues and Considerations

Continues on from an article in the previous issue with an overview of policy issues and considerations, focusing on some strategic recommendations made by the May 1987 task force of the New York State Library. General recommendations cover financial plans,telecommunications policy and review committees; database recommendations include determining the prime candidates for systems linking, providing leadership in selecting the systems to be linked,ensuring balanced development of the resources and developing the criteria to do so.