Fifteen librarians and one publisher give their opinions of the top priorities for the new Librarian of Congress. (LS)

Public libraries can no longer be all things to all people," they need to set one or two major goals to serve one or two major sectors and give everything they have to this effort. (7 references) (Author/NH)

It is the responsibility of the undergraduate librarian to develop substantive service programs and tangible goals. Such goals include close faculty-librarian understanding and cooperation, and productive student-librarian relations. (MF)

The plain fact about information science...is that its practitioners do not know what they are talking about and are unable to describe the product they are trying to produce. (16 references) (Author)

Librarians need to switch their identity from operating libraries to providing information services to constituencies of concern. Libraries need to be transformed through the discovery of new meaning, relevancy, and purpose. The process of the White House Conference is a pilot laboratory of a transformation process. (Author/SW)