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Describes the `Chemist's Crystal Ball' system being used by students at Yale University to locate electronic information about chemistry, including bibliographic, database and on-line information. Comments from its developer Kimberly J. Parker.Briefly notes the Library of Congress has issued an update of `USMARC Format for Holdings Data'; A collection of articles on library networks is available from the University of Minnesota; Contact points for more information.

Describes the pilot project at the Louisiana State University library which scans its rare-book collections to make them available electronically to researchers and students. Photographs and maps in the original volumes, `Historical Collections of Louisiana' will be scanned into the computer later; Data bases to be issued in CD-ROMs; Comments by Faye Phillips; Contact point for more information.

Reports on the University of California system's announcement that it plans to create a new library whose collection would be available entirely on line. Details of the California Digital Library; Amount the collegiate system plans to spend; Comments from Richard E. Lucier, the digital library's first librarian; Goals of the library; The policy issues to be faced by the library's staff.