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ters 11 from professional associates which 
produced a clear consensus-and it was 
11 not in the first instance financial. 11 Be-
sides outstanding personal characteris-
tics, the expectations were for a genuine 
understanding of the library's missions in 
higher education, a clearer recognition of 
the librarian's acceptance as a peer in the 
educational enterprise, and a reliable flow 
of communication and consultation. 

As this volume asserts, and as Moffett 
quoted President W. Robert Parks of Iowa 
State University, the library's needs 
''must become the shared concern of 
every scholar and every department on 
this campus, we must each of us make it 
our own individual business." To this 
statement, Moffett and each library direc-
tor in the country will say, amen.-David 
C. Weber, Stanford University. 

Strategies for Meeting the Information 
Needs of Society in the Year 2000. 
Comp. by Martha Boaz. Littleton, 
Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1981. 197p. 
LC 81-11751. ISBN 0-87287-249-1. 
Projecting future trends and developing 

strategies for solving perceived library 
and information science problems has 
been a major preoccupation of many a 
writer in our field. Frequently, however, 
such projections have been narrow in 
scope in the sense that they encompassed 
only specific technologies, dealt only with 
specific media, specific types of informa-
tion services, specific institutions, or re-
flected the unique vantage points of single 
individuals. Moreover, the projections of-
ten lacked the essential interconnections 
or syntheses required for the integrated 
assessment of both the sociopolitical and 
technological factors affecting the future 
provision of information services. 

Martha Boaz, research associate at the 
Center for the Study of the American Ex-
perience at the Annenberg School of Com-
munications and former dean of the Grad-
uate School of Library Science, University 
of Southern California, has done an admi-
rable job in selecting and organizing a 
number of manuscripts which, in their to-
tality, provide an excellent overview of the 
information problems that we may en-
counter in the not too distant future. Plan-

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ning is suggested and solutions are of-
fered which are available to us now and 
will be available to us in the decades 
ahead. 

Fourteen manuscripts (two of which are 
reprints) emphasize major aspects of in-
formation technology, overall user needs, 
information economics, networking, le-
gal, social, ethical, and regulatory issues. 
The contributed papers deal in depth with 
one or more aspects of such topics as tele-
communications and value systems (R. 
Byrne, J. E. Ruchinskas), information and 
productivity (V. E. Giuliano), user needs 
and societal problems whose resolution 
require information services (B. Nanus, P. 
Gray, J. Naisbitt), library and information 
service networks, including political, le-
gal, and regulatory factors (A. F. Trezza, 
R. Turn, H. L. Oler, R. Weingarten, P. 
Zurkowski), the role of the author in the 
information society (W. I. Boucher), and 
expected advances in computer, video, 
and communications technology (H. S. 
McDonald, M. Boaz). Through judicious 
selection and grouping of the contribu-
tions, by providing also an introductory 
review paper, biographical sketches of the 
authors, and by also providing a summary 
of conclusions and recommendations, the 
compiler has made the volume coherent 
and valuable. 

In publishing this worthwhile contribu-
tion to the literature of the field of library 
and information science, it is regrettable 
that the publisher prints this legend on the 
verso of the title page: "No part of this 
publication may be reproduced, stored in 
a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any 
form or by any means, electronic, me-
chanical, photocopying, recording, or 
otherwise, without the prior written per-
mission of the publisher.'' Were we to ad-
here fully to this spurious admonition, our 
present and future information needs 
would hardly be met.-Irving M. 
Klempner, State University of New York at Al-
bany. 

Stevens, Norman D. Communication 
throughout Libraries. Metuchen, N.J.: 
Scarecrow, 1983, 195p. $14.50 cloth. LC 
82-10502. ISBN 0-8108-1577-X. 
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