The 23 papers in this collection include papers on special libraries and miscellaneous contributed papers: (1) "Networking Potentialities and Limitations--Special Library Networks in Socialist Countries--An Overview, and the Main Ways of Perestroika in the Work of Scientific and Technical Libraries at the Present Stage" (D. Schmidmaier & I. Eenmaa); (2) "Networking Potentialities and Limitations--Achievements, Potentialities and Limitations for Library Networking in Europe and North America" (R. Brown); (3) "Networking Potentialities and Limitations in Developing Countries" (C. Lupovici); (4) "The New Trend To Share the Research Materials and Information among National Art Museum Libraries in Japan" (T. Mizutani); (5) "The Art and Architecture Program Committee on the Research Libraries Group" (N. Allen); (6) "MEXICOARTE: A Database, Another Alternative To Study the Art of Mexico" (E. Blasquez); (7) "Automation and Academic Library Structures" (abbreviated version, M. Von Cotta-Schonberg); (8) "The Convergence of Management Attention upon Information: Lessons for Librarianship" (M. Broadbent, & M. Koenig); (9) "Promoting Maps to the Australian Public--Nationwide Map Week" (D. Prescott); (10) "Automated Map Retrieval" (P. Ochman); (11) "Will Your Library Be the Spatial Data Information Center of the Future?" (G. North); (12) "The Importance of Publications from Developing Countries and the Implications for Libraries in Industralized Countries" (E. Seusing); (13) "Supporting the Utility of Retrieval Results" (H. Millonig); (14) "Standards in Patent Office Publications--An Example for the Easier Acquiring of Technical-Scienfic Information" (E. Derday); (15) "Newspaper as a Tool in Educational Research in Nigeria" (L. Aina); (16) "Bibliographic Control of Literature in Research Disciplines in Kenya" (J. Otike); (17) "Literature Data Banks for Institutional Libraries: A Critical Comparison between Conventional Information Media and the Possibilities Offered by EDP-Supported Legal Information Systems in Europe" (G. Kruse); (18) "Health Library Coopreation in Europe: A First Resport" (M. Walckiers); (19) "The Development of a Maori Health Knowledge Base" (G. Prestidge); (20) "The Newspaper in the Community: The 'Age' Information Service as a Supplier of Community and Business Information" (P. Lovell); (21) "Living Together with Microcomputers and Computer Readable Materials in Libraries" (P. Jacso); (22) "Access to Agricultural Information by the Rural Women in Uganda: Present Structure, Problems, and Hopes for the Future" (o. Mutibwa); and (23) "Online Information Services and the Information Needs of the School Community" (L. Clyde). (CGD)