What does CARL stand for?

Current display technology lacks "the look of clean white paper with heavy black ink, but it's getting close," said Alan Charnes, executive director of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries in Denver.

For example, in the case of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, the member libraries pooled resources in an effort to create a shared library system; that in turn facilitated the sharing of resources via a centrally shared computer system.

netLibrary offers us a tremendous opportunity to enhance our services, particularly for higher education and distance learning," said Alan Charnes, executive director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.

The directors surveyed were selected from the author's personal acquaintances within the ARL, the American Library Association (ALA), the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL), and the Greater Midwest Research Libraries Consortium (GMRLC); and participation in the ARL Office of Management Services Consultant Training Program and the University of California, Los Angeles/Council on Library Resources (UCLA/CLR) Senior Fellows program.

With the intent of facilitating member libraries' collection-development activities, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL), one of the nation's most successful wide-area library computer networks, loaded CHOICE, a popular book review journal, on their system four years ago.