Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I. Library Policy and the State -- 1. Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland -- 2. Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate -- 3. A Coordinator's View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation -- 4. Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas -- 5. The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989 -- 6. In Search of an Optimum Model of Development -- PART II. Case Histories -- 7. Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges -- 8. Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC -- 9. The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University -- 10. CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries -- 11. Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN -- 12. Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium -- 13. Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia -- 14. The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic -- PART III. Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues -- 15. A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen -- 16. The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries -- 17. The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia -- 18. Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries -- 19. Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland -- 20. The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different Solutions.

21. New Possibilities for Information Retrieval -- 22. Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution -- 23. Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog -- 24. Knowledge and Information Processing -- 25. The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents -- 26. The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues -- PART IV. Management Issues -- 27. The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries -- 28. Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects -- 29. The Kraków Project: Problems of Management -- 30. Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries -- 31. Staff Preparation for Automation -- 32. Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training -- 33. The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia -- 34. The Human Aspects of Library Automation -- 35. The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services.