Abstract
Traces the development of document delivery systems in Australia against the background of three major factors: demography and global isolation of the country; the country's response to this pattern of demography and isolation; and the systems of government. Traces the striving for bibliographic control and the successful development of computerized cataloguing and telecom munications networks, such as ABN and the Internet. Concludes with a dis cussion of interloans and document delivery, the important role played by the Australian National Library and the Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (ACLIS) in co-ordinating these developments, and the issue of copyright as it is likely to affect document delivery in the future.
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