College and Research Libraries


Editorial 
C&RL's New Editor 

With this issue of College & Research Libraries-my twenty-first-! complete my term as 
editor and pass the mantle of responsibility to my successor, Charles Martell. 

I am honored to have been asked to serve the profession in this capacity and have ac-
quired from this service, among other things, a deep appreciation for the work that editors 
do, an appreciation that will inform my reading of librarianship journals in the years to 
come. Charles will put his own imprint on C&RL, and I look forward to lively reading from 
his editorship. 

A word about this issue. The articles included offer different perspectives on a single 
theme-the impact of information and its associated technologies on academic libraries and 
librarianship. Arms discusses the convergence of function between the computing center 
and the library. Battin describes the structural changes in organization that universities 
face as the species library becomes a generic function. Stoffle and her colleagues discuss the 
role of the library in the microcomputer revolution and argue that the library is the most 
appropriate center for serving the revolutionaries. Matheson and Adams, in different 
ways, address the role of librarians and the book in the information age. In reviewing his 
father's concern about librarians and books, Adams connects eras in a timeless and generic 
way. English enriches the discussion by reporting on a survey of administrators' percep-
tions of librarians and faculty status. And finally, we have the report of the symposium at 
Cornell on collections. 

An agenda of issues worthy of the best our profession can deliver emerges clearly from 
these pieces. Adams captures the essential notion when he concludes that "it is change we 
are dealing with .... " Indeed! 

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