This document consists of 12 issues (2 years) of a newsletter devoted to information and reports on issues and actions of interest to research libraries. Each of the 12 newsletters in the collection is divided into six topic areas: (1) current issues, which offers articles on topics such as library catalogs in the 21st century, libraries and scholarly communication, and the costs of interlibrary loan; (2) reports from ARL's Office of Science and Academic Publishing on publishers, book fairs, electronic publishing, serial prices and cancellation rates, electronic publishing, and other relevant information; (3) federal relations, including copyright legislation, the National Research and Education Network (NREN), budgets of federal agencies, and congressional hearings of interest to research libraries; (4) reports from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), such as task force meeting reports and progress on the TopNode project; (5) articles from ARL's Office of Management Services, addressing topics such as cultural diversity consulting, current management theory appropriate to librarians, and minority recruiting; and (6) ARL activities, including meeting announcements, grants received, personnel changes, and publications. (KRN)