Library Trends, Volume 46

Volume 46, Number 1, Summer 1997

• Bryce Allen:
  The Benton Report as Research.
  
• Douglas L. Zweizig:
  How Firm a Foundation?
  
• Michael Gorman:
  Living and Dying with "Information": Comments on the Report Buildings, Books, and Bytes.
  
• Charles R. McClure, John Carlo Bertot:
  Creating a Future for Public Libraries: Diverse Strategies for a Diverse Nation.
  
• William F. Birdsall:
  A "New Deal" for Libraries in the Digital Age?
  
• Maurice B. Line:
  The Public Library in the Future: A British Reaction to Buildings, Books, and Bytes.
  
• Herbert S. White:
  Who Will Lead the Unsuspecting Lemmings Over the Cliff?
  
• Glen E. Holt:
  Balancing Buildings, Book, Bytes, and Bucks: Steps to Secure the Public Library Future in the Internet Age.
  
• Kathleen de la Pena McCook:
  The Search for New Metaphors.
  
• Richard T. Sweeney:
  Creating Library Services with Wow! Staying Slightly Ahead of the Curve.
  
• Andrew M. Odlyzko:
  Silicon Dreams and Silicon Bricks: The Continuing Evolution of Libraries.
  
• Leigh S. Estabrook:
  The Benton Report: A Response.
  

Volume 46, Number 2,

• Tina Maragou Hovekamp:
  Professional Associations or Unions? A Comparative Look.
  
• Jordan M. Scepanski, H. Lea Wells:
  Library Association Staff: Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships.
  
• Barbara J. Glendenning, James C. Gordon:
  Professional Associations: Promoting Leadership in a Career.
  
• Joy Thomas:
  Associate "Members of the Club" Speak Out: Individual Response to a State or Regional Association Presidency.
  
• Sue Kamm:
  To Join or Not to Join: How Librarians Make Membership Decisions About Their Associations.
  
• Donald G. Frank:
  Activity in Professional Associations: The Positive Difference in a Librarian's Career.
  
• William Fisher:
  The Value of Professional Associations.
  
• Cindy Mediavilla:
  The War on Books and Ideas: The California Library Association and Anti-Communist Censorship in the 1940s and 1950s.
  
• Linda J. Owen:
  Paraprofessional Groups and Associations.
  
• Tami Echavarria, Andrew B. Wertheimer:
  Surveying the Role of Ethnic-American Library Associations.
  
• Charlene Baldwin:
  International Library Associations.
  
• Edward J. Valauskas:
  The Virtual Association.
  

Volume 46, Number 3, Winter 1998

• Susan Easun: Introduction: The Roles of Professionals, Paraprofessionals, and Nonprofessionals: A View from the Academy.
• Andrew Abbott:
  Professionalism and the Future of Librarianship, .
  
• Thomas J. Froehlich:
  Ethical Considerations Regarding Library Nonprofessionals: Competing Perspectives and Values.
  
• Anthony M. Wilson, Robert Hermanson:
  Educating and Training Library Practitioners: A Comparative History with Trends and Recommendations.
  
• Marcella D. Genz:
  Working the Reference Desk.
  
• Lynne C. Howarth:
  The Role of the Paraprofessional in Technical Services in Libraries.
  
• Frances Davidson-Arnott, Deborah Kay:
  Library Technician Programs: Skills-Oriented Paraprofessional Education.
  
• Roma M. Harris, Victoria Marshall:
  Reorganizing Canadian Libraries: A Giant Step Back from the Front.
  
• Sue Easun:
  It's Not Who We are but Where We are: Skating the Periphery versus Pushing the Envelope.
  

Volume 46, Number 4, Spring 1998

• Theresa M. Maylone: Introduction: Qualitative Research.
• Jim Horn:
  Qualitative Research Literature: A Bibliographic Essay, .
  
• Gary P. Radford:
  Flaubert, Foucault, and the Bibliotheque Fantastique: Toward a Postmodern Epistemology for Library Science, .
  
• Mark Tyler Day:
  Transformational Discourse: Idealogies of Organizational Change in the Academic Library and Information Science Literature.
  
• Peter Liebscher:
  Quantity with Quality? Teaching Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in an LIS Master's Program.
  
• Gillian M. McCombs:
  The Keys to the Kingdom have been Distributed: An Organizational Analysis of an Academic Computing Center.
  
• Marie L. Radford:
  Approach or Avoidance? The Role of Nonverbal Communication in the Academic Library User's Decision to Initiate a Reference Encounter.
  
• Moira Smith, Paul Yachnes:
  Scholar's Playground or Wisdom's Temple? Competing Metaphors in a Library Electronic Text Center.
  
• Victoria E. M. Pendleton, Elfreda A. Chatman:
  Small World Lives: Implications for the Public Library.
  
• Danny P. Wallace, Connie Van Fleet:
  Qualitative Research and the Editorial Tradition: A Mixed Metaphor.