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Today, VTLS is a comprehensive, integrated solution to the automation requirements of academic, public, and special libraries around the world. No two libraries are alike; no two regions are alike. VTLS recognizes these differences and offers libraries the flexibility of numerous options to configure the system that best meets their functional and financial needs.

Stanford Receives Donation to Overseas Center. Stanford University's Overseas Center in Kyoto, Japan, has received an inter‐network router from Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco donated the router and two additional units in recognition of the firm's roots at Stanford and of the university's role in the development of internetworking technology.

This paper describes the hypermedia authoring and annotation capability of the VTLS InfoStation. Such a capability offers library users services previously unavailable in a traditional library automation system. Hypermedia enables readers to travel from one document to another with ease. In effect, it automates the process of following references in an encyclopedia. It also supports collaboration among researchers, professors and students by allowing them to annotate within the context of a body of scholarly material. Furthermore, it helps users look up related items in a library more efficiently without having to search through an entire database.

This paper describes the cutting‐edge hardware and software for multimedia information storage and access. We will focus on the NeXT computer as the innovative hardware platform and introduce the VTLS InfoStation as the new generation software that offers user‐friendly multimedia information access using expert systems, natural language processing, direct manipulation graphical techniques and retrieval of full text, images and audio data.