...Diva Andrade; Waldomiro Vergueiro Discusses collection development in academic libraries, using the practices of a Brazilian academic library as an example. Outlines several theoretical models for collection development provided by professional literature and chooses Evans’s model as a tool...

...Toby Burrows Proposes a new model of bibliographic access, the virtual catalogue, to serve the virtual library. Suggests the use of current software and networks to build links between distributed bibliographic databases of all kinds, including full text, to enable the user to search a specified...