id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-1344 istl-1344 .html text/plain 6939 276 47 Anne Lipow, Director of Library Solutions Institute and Press and Library Consultant Lou Weatherbee organized three 2 1/2 day seminars (Berkeley -- March 1993, Duke -- June 1994 and Iowa -- Feb. 1994) in which librarians from across the country charted new directions for reference, brainstormed specific changes that are desirable and followed up by suggesting practical steps that they might take to enhance the value of library services and meet increasing patron demands while dealing with ever more stringent budget targets. There are two new projects in the works -- one is a feasibility study of the usefulness of CD-ROM for developing collections of grey literature in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia and a second project to study elements and features of gophers and world wide web servers of major science libraries and come up with some guidelines for these new electronic libraries of information. cache/istl-1344.html txt/istl-1344.txt