ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA: A CD‐ROM Database Project

A statewide program that benefits all libraries, ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA is structured around school libraries. The major objectives were, and continue to be, 1) the production of a union catalog that will facilitate resource identification and retrieval, and 2) development of automated support‐capabilities within the libraries served by the project. The union catalog has been mounted on CD‐ROMs, and distributed to all project libraries. The libraries have experienced an average increase in circulation to their own constituents (from their own resources) of 300 percent or more, due to the powerful searching capabilities of the CD‐ROM catalog. Cooperation among libraries has been greatly increased as a result of the development of the union catalog.