抄録
In Febrary 1980, “A proposal for research information system in future” by the Scientific Research Council, Ministry of Education was appeared, and it emphasized the necessity of establishing the university library network in Japan. However, when the library cooperation is carryed out in network, individual library must consider to analyse its library functions, to improve its library operations upon daily basis, and to perform the goals and objectives as the university libraries. In this paper, author refer to the services to user in the Columbia University Libraries from 1958 to 1975, and also the progress, policy and activities of the RLG.
