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This annual collection contains 16 papers about the use of Macintosh computers in libraries which include: "New Horizons in Library Training: Using HyperCard for Computer-Based Staff Training" (Pauline S. Bayne and Joe C. Rader); "Get a Closet!" (Ron Berntson); "Current Periodicals: Subject Access the Mac Way" (Constance L. Foster); "Project ilLUMINAte at the University of Minnesota Libraries" (Celia Hales-Mabry); "Pat: Got the Apple Grant! Help!!!" (Pat Hunt); "A Teacher's Dream...A Student's Nightmare: The Minnesota State Test Item Bank on CD-ROM" (Keith Johnson); "The Chemist's Crystal Ball" (Merri Beth Lavagnino and Kimberly Parker); "Macintosh in a Supercomputer Library" (Mary Layman); "The Library is Not a Place" (Shelley Lochhead and Lawrence Bickford); "Profiting From the Macintosh: Investments in an Electronic Library at Southwest Missouri State University" (John M. Meador, Jr.); "Digitized Document Transmission Using HyperCard" (Eric Lease Morgan and Tracy M. Casorso); "Designing and Evaluating ARCHIMEDES: A HyperCard Reference Aid at the University of Michigan" (Jim Ottaviani and James E. Alloway); "The Gateway to Information: Using Macintosh, HyperCard and MitemView to Simplify Information Seeking at The Ohio State University" (Fred Roecker); "School Libraries and Smart School Development" (Charles Stallard); "HyperCard VIRGO Training" (Christie Stephenson); and "The CORE Project: Formatting Chemistry Information for Screen Display in HyperCard" (Stuart Weibel, Mark Bendig and Will Ray). Also included are an introduction, "The Death of the Library Workstation" (Edward J. Valauskas); a directory of vendors; an index; and a list of the hardware, software, text types, and outputs used in the publication of this collection. (ALF)

This annual collection contains the following 14 papers about the use of Macintosh computers in libraries: "Of Mice and Macs: The Integration of the Macintosh into the Operations and Services of the University of Tennessee, Memphis Health Science Library" (Lois M. Bellamy); "Networking Reference CD-Roms in the Apple Library" (Mary Ellen Bercik); "In Splendid Isolation: The Macintosh at the University of the Arts Libraries" (Stephen Bloom): "A Shareware System Shared" (Carol Bonham); "Database Publishing by the Shores of the Chesapeake" (Kay Brodie and Claudia Jewell); "Business Sense: Using the Macintosh in a Business School Library" (Lene Byskov and Jorgen Albretsen); "Macintoshing the Special Library: A Case Study" (George H. Drury); "The 'Macintoshed Life'...in a Junior High School Library Setting" (Carol Felch); "Using HyperCard as a Promotional Tool" (Barbara Mattscheck); "It Started Slowly...and It Grew...And Grew...And Grew" (Mary E. Okarma); "The HyperCard Library Instruction Project" (Joan Parker); "How I Learned to Stop Worrying...(and Love the Macintosh)" (Barbara Passoff); "Reach Out and Type at Someone (or How I Found Happiness in Sleepless Nights on the Fidonet)" (Alan Rowoth); and "USCInfo: A Development Platform for Tomorrow's Information Rich Environment" (John Waiblinger). Also included are an introduction, "Survival of the Fittest: The Evolution of The Macintosh in Libraries" (Edward J. Valauskas); a directory of vendors; an index; and "Toolbox," a list of hardware, software, typeface, and output used in the publication of this collection. (ALF)

Contributed by librarians from public, academic, school, and special libraries, the 17 essays in this collection describe ways in which the Apple Macintosh is used in their libraries: (1) "Workstations and the Apple Macintosh" (Edward J. Valauskas); (2) "The Macintosh Experience at Chesapeake College" (Liz Cooper); (3) "ANSEL Character Set for the Macintosh" (Selden Deemer); (4) "The Macintosh Computer at the James M. Milne Library" (Richard D. Johnson); (5) "The Macintoshed Library--Clemson University Library" (Kenneth R. Murr); (6) "Macintosh Applications in the Media Services Department" (Layne E. Nordgren and Michael A. Sieber); (7) "Macintoshes in the University of Illinois at Chicago Library" (E. Paige Weston); (8) "Macintosh Computers, Developing a Local Area Network in the Public Library" (Duncan J. McKenzie); (9) "Nobody Here But Us Evangelists!" (Jean Armour Polly); (10) "The Macintoshing of a Public Library" (Bill Vaccaro); (11) "Using the Macintosh at Lincoln High School Library" (Anitra Gordon); (12) "Computerized Overdue Notices with Access to 512K Extended Macintosh" (Sally Tweedie); (13) "The Macs-imized High School Library" (Ruth Windmiller and Elizabeth Bankhead); (14) "Macintosh in the Apple Library" (Rosanne Macek); (15) "The Corporate Library Macintosh" (Kerry G. Stanley and Diane C. Shaffer); (16) "Macintosh Applications of the Merriam Center Library" (Edward J. Valauskas); and (17) "Examining the Future of Personal Computers and Libraries" (Edward Valauskas). (MES)

This annual collection contains 18 papers about the use of Macintosh computers in libraries. Papers include: "The Macintosh as a Wayfinding Tool for Professional Conferences: The LITA '88 HyperCard Stack" (Ann F. Bevilacqua); "Enhancing Library Services with the Macintosh" (Naomi C. Broering); "Scanning Technologies in Libraries" (Steve Cisler); "The Macintosh at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library: Flexibility in a Dynamic Environment" (Kerry L. Cochrane); "How a School Librarian Looked at a Gnawing Problem (and Saw How the Mac and Hypercard Might Solve It)" (Stephen J. D'Elia); "The Macintoshed Media Catalog: Helping People Find What They Need in Spite of LC" (Virginia Gilmore and Layne Nordgren); "The Mac and Power Days at Milne" (Richard D. Johnson); "The USC College Library--A Macintoshed System" (Anne Lynch and Hazel Lord); "Macintosh in the Apple Library: An Update" (Rosanne Macek); "The Macs-imized High School Library Instructional Program" (Carole Martinez and Ruth Windmiller); "The Power To Be Our Best: The Macintosh at the Niles Public Library" (Duncan J. McKenzie); "Taking the Plunge...or, How to Launch a 'Mac-Attack' on a Public Library" (Vickie L. Novak); "The Public Macintosh: Solutions for the Rest of Us" (Jean Armour Polly); "Keyword Access to Specialized Collections in an Academic Library Using the Apple Macintosh" (Elena Romaniuk); "The King of Fonts: Sharing Fonts on a TOPS Network (or, 'Hey Where's University Roman?')" (Alan Rowoth); "Use of the Macintosh in the Reference Section" (Neal Schleifer); "The Macintoshed Lab at Case Western Reserve University Libraries" (Sharon K. Schmitt); and "M.A.C.--The Media Access Center at the J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University" (Mitch Turitz). Also included are an afterword, "MacProverbs" (Rick Fensterer); a directory of contributors and editors; an index of articles by type of library activity; a directory of hardware and software vendors; and a comprehensive index. (ALF)

This book is a collection of "success stories" written by teachers, media specialists, and school administrators who have developed their own facilities to bring the Internet to their students. The book's four main parts parallel the stages educators progress through when incorporating the Internet into the instructional process. Part 1, "Developing Visions, Creating Infrastructures," opens with an overview of what the Internet offers learners and its possibilities for opening minds and expanding horizons. This is followed by three plans for creating infrastructures for accessing and using the Internet. These include funding, staffing, and hardware components. Part 2, "Building Models," looks at the Internet as one part of the total educational technology picture. This section features five "success stories" that describe how individual schools and school districts advanced from a desire to use the Internet to actually applying it, by training faculty and students and involving it in classroom instruction. Part 3, "Integrating the Internet with Curriculum," describes projects at four schools that involve incorporating Internet skills into the curriculum. Part 4, "Publishing on the Web," examines both the technical and educational aspects of World Wide Web publishing in schools. The Postscript, "Learning with the Internet: Prospects for Tomorrow," discusses the educational environment, computer literacy, and virtual communities as crucial interrelated elements of an increasingly technologically-driven world. In addition, appendices include a list of the Internet sites referenced in the book, a list of additional educational Internet sites, and a bibliography. (Author/AEF)

This book examines real-life projects involving Internet access, use, and financing in libraries. It focuses on how becoming an Internet provider has improved many libraries' public visibility, level of service, and communication with other educational or community institutions. Chapters include: (1) "Setting Up an Internet Users Group in the Public Library" (Carolyn Caywood); (2) "Wendy's Connects Billings, Montana" (Bill Cochran); (3) "Internet and the Corporate Library: Creating New Opportunity at the Apple Library" (Monica Ertel); (4) "A Small Special Library in the University Makes Itself Bigger with the Internet" (Mary C. Pettengill); (5) "Mushing the Net in Alaska" (Susan Elliot & Steve Smith); (6) "The Texas State Electronic Library: Giving Texans 'All They Need to Know' Through a Single Source" (Mike Clark & M. Lisa deGruyter); (7) "Maryland's Sailor Project: A Library Gateway for Statewide Access to the Internet" (Rivkah K. Sass); (8) "Metro Net Library Consortium: A Model of Public Libraries as Internet Providers in Michigan" (Gerald M. Furi and others); (9) "Internet Use by Rural Public Libraries: An Examination of Two Programs in the Hudson Valley of New York State" (Denise A. Garofalo); (10) "The Internet in Depository Libraries: Better Service, Higher Stress" (Doreen L. Hansen); (11) "Student Employees Enhance Internet Expertise for a Liberal Arts College Library" (Terry Metz); (12) "Implementing the Internet at Syntex: Collaboration between the Library and Information Systems" (Pamela Jajko and others); (13) "Finding a Place in an Advanced Networking Environment: The Library of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business" (Robert E. Mayer & Suzanne Sweeney); (14) "Pikes Peak Library District's MAGGNet" (David R. Clark); (15) "Wish Lists Come True at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Research Library" (Eugenie Prime and others); (16) "UtahLINK: A Model for Statewide Educational Use of the Internet" (Sharyl G. Smith); (17) "Literacy on the Internet: The National Institute for Literacy and State Literacy Resource Centers World Wide Web Information Network" (Thomas Eland); and (18) "A Regional Free-Net and Internet Access" (Judy Hallman). A list of Internet addresses mentioned in the text and a glossary are appended. (Contains 109 references.) (BEW)

Describes the Kodak Picture Exchange that includes a database of over 200,000 photographic images collected from 28 stock photography companies in the United States that allows the user to search for images by topic. Highlights include installing the software, alternative search strategies, costs, manipulating images, and rules governing the use of images. (Author/LRW)

This report describes the use of Apple Macintosh computers in the Merriam Center Library (MCL) (Illinois), a small, specialized library located on the campus of the University of Chicago. The appropriateness of the Macintosh for library use and the introduction of Macintosh computers to MCL are briefly discussed, current computer applications are described, software use is summarized, and future plans are considered. In addition, a description of Macintosh files, which makes up the major part of the report, consists of seven articles originally published in the newsletter of the Apple Library Users Group: (1) "Periodicals Management with the Macintosh in a Special Library" (Edward J. Valauskas); (2) "Update on Periodical Management with a Macintosh in a Special Library" (Michael A. Wilson); (3) "Macintosh-Mainframe Applications in a Special Library" (Dennis A. Jenks and Edward J. Valauskas); (4) "Data Massage--the Red-Light District of Data Entry" (Dennis A. Jenks); (5) "Acquisitions Management with the Macintosh in a Special Library" (Michael A. Wilson); (6) "Using the Macintosh to Create a Circulation File for a Special Library" (Michael A. Wilson); and (7) "Publishing Bibliographies with the Macintosh and MacWrite" (Charlotte Ullman). A discussion of the future of the Macintosh in a library environment concludes the report. A listing of ten software sources is appended. (KM)