Study, research, and development were undertaken in the first 18 months of a program (Phase I) to design and implement an Information Processing Laboratory for teaching and research in the field of librarianship. Work during this period was concerned with the planning of the Laboratory and its development according to plan. The planning resulted in definition of initial topics within librarianship to be supported by the Laboratory in relation to the educational needs of the field. This, in turn, led to the development of computer programs for on-line interrogation and search and data files upon which to "exercise" these techniques, as well as other Laboratory elements. The Phase I work included assembling and checking out these initial pieces of the Laboratory; however, no true operational activities were undertaken in the sense of students using the Laboratory on a regular basis. The Laboratory was designed to include capabilities relating both to intellectual access (e.g., associate searching, automatic indexing, automatic abstracting) and to more traditional course content (e.g., subject cataloging). Future directions and plans for the Laboratory were included in the Phase I report. (JH)