Abstract
In July, 1988, the Library of Congress established a one-year pilot Machine-Readable Collections Reading Room as part of its overall effort to acquire, organize, provide bibliographic control and make available to researchers machine-readable materials, both current and archival. The reference assistance required in this reading room has been significantly different from that provided in other general reading rooms in the Library of Congress. This article gives an overview of the activities in the pilot reading room and the kinds of reference encounters that have taken place there.
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