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This section presents information on several computer software and CD-ROM packages for U.S. libraries. Get-A-Ref version 4.0 is a tool for researchers, scientists, physicians, graduate students, or anyone else who must access and update personal libraries of reprints. The Third College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary database holds approximately 30 megabytes of standard dictionary data including 140,000 lexemes, 180,000 definitions, 51,000 etymologies, and 50,000 classification descriptors. Utlas International has released a CD-ROM containing over 460,000 full MARC serials records to complement its CD-CATSS cataloging system. The records consist of the pre-1987 authenticated CONSER files from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada as well as original serials records from selected Utlas customers. The Unisys Corp. has completed negotiations with the University of North Dakota for the implementation of a PALS Library Management system to serve libraries statewide. The network will allow the Grand Forks Public Library and the North Dakota State Library to make their combined 1.7 million-volume collection available to any library system.

The article discusses the use of data-driven decisions in the collection development of libraries and the data tools available to make such decisions as of May 2014. Topics include the need for human review of circulation data to determine whether a title should be remove or promoted in a new way, the data collection tool collectionHQ from Baker & Taylor, and the use of supplemental information-gathering techniques to reflect the needs of a library's community.

Provides information on the computer software Overlap Analysis from Serials Solutions Inc. Features and capabilities of the software; Offerings for subscribers of Serials Solutions E-Journal Access & Management Suite.

The article discusses how the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) uses the works of self-published authors for its collection. LAPL has been actively involved in supporting local authors, and it launched "LAPL Writes," a local author web portal. LAPL has partnered with the firm BiblioBoard to offer Pressbooks Public self-publishing software for digital publications.

The article offers brief information on the web-based social media archives toolkit.

This article evaluates SAGE Full-Text Collections which are research databases of popular, peer-reviewed journals in a variety of subjects ranging across the social sciences, sciences, and engineering. SAGE Collections use the CSA search interface. Features SAGE Full-Text has to offer include Combining Searches, setting up your personal profile for alerts, a search history, a command search mode, thesaurus searching, and index searching.