This look at changes in young adult literature and librarianship over the past 10 years discusses young adult librarianship in 1978; the development in 1978 of the "Young Adult Perplex" column reviewing adolescent literature; sex education; feminism; intellectual freedom; different perspectives of the column; and the current status of the field.…

Three major topics are discussed in this essay conveying a vision of what the university library should be like in the twenty-first century: (1) librarianship as a scholarly discipline; (2) politics and the university library; and (3) the library as an active agent in the life of a university. (EJS)

Presents eight responses from individuals reacting to Suprenant's and Perry-Holmes's article entitled "Reference Librarian of the Future" (RQ, Winter, 1985). Topics covered in the responses include the information poor, information consultants, information interpretation, library education, the human element, revitalizing reference…