The purpose of this report is to describe, chronicle and evaluate for the academic library community at large the Cornell University long-range planning effort. Planning effort is the phrase now used by Cornell librarians to describe their recent and continuing experience in developing a planning team, a dynamic long-range strategic plan, participative management, and the planning process itself. The three-way association between Cornell University Libraries, the Council on Library Resources, which provided the financial resources, and the American Management Association which provided the expertise makes this planning effort unique and of interest to other libraries. This unique planning effort is described and evaluated in this volume. (Author/SJ)