American Library Association Year Book of Library and Information Services

Examining trends in librianship during 1989, this yearbook focuses on distance learning, the National Forum on Information Literacy and the US-USSR Colloquium on Library Services to Children. It also features a number of library statistics. Other topics include the Armenian Earthquake Library Project, the short supply of cataloguers and the rethinking of the library in the information age. Over 125 articles review the events and activities of state and regional library associations and agencies during 1989.