Centralized systems - the automated system of "Le Reseau de Bibliotheques de la Ville de Paris", changing a centralized library automation system, networking in the Chartered Institute of Bankers, locally developed systems used at Cambridge University, automating a large museum library; wide area and local networks - local area networks - selection, implementation and expansion, introducing a local area network in Devon library services, JANET present and future, networking in the European Community - help for small firms, making the most of linked systems, collection development in an era of netwroking - the bibliographer's workstation, potential networking developments in Essex county libraries, networking with VTLS with some reference to the National Library of Scotland, development of an OSI-based network at Aston University, development of a campus network at the University of Southampton, networking LIBERTAS in the University of Wales; co-operative systems - developing a multi-type library consortium, the new VISCOUNT network and th future of open interlending systems, SALBIN - freedom of access for users unlimited; commercial and industrial services - fitting technology together for an integrated information services, running a multi-site on line service; school libraries - the use of SIMS in the school library, information skills in the school curriculum, the introduction and use of the Dolphin School Library System; information retrieval and indexing - maintaining a controlled vocabulary of a large online database service, getting the best out of automated retrieval, keeping up with community information, views on classification as a search tool on a computer, aspects of systems for inhouse retrieval, an information retrieval service for health promotion, aspects of computer-based indexing languages;CD-ROM - CD-ROM networking, digitizing pictures using CD-ROM or WORM, setting standards, CD-ROM networking in practice, the commercial view of CD-ROM; hypermedia - hypermedia publications, hypertext applications, hypertext research in project QUARTET; expert systems - researching into the uses of expert systems, an expert selector of online public access catalogues; desktop publishing - the use of desktop publishing at the AFRC Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Welsh Plant Breeding Station, desktop publishing or not? Factors involved, desktop publishing for short-run publications.