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The article offers information on the 19th annual Internet Librarian International conference which involved topics like Content Creativity, Marketing the Library and Scholarly Communications. It mentions views of Kate Torney, chief executive officer (CEO) of the State Library of Victoria, on librarians. It presents the views of David White, head of digital learning at the University of the Arts in London, England, on information provided by internet.

Presents news briefs relating to libraries and librarians. Report on changes which will occur at the School of Computer, Information and Library Sciences at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Announcement by Facts on File and Bruccoli Clark Layman of the projections for "Bibliography of United States Literature," the first volume of which will be published in 1990; Report that the Los Angeles Public Library was the only California recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grants; Naming of Diana Thomas as acting dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California at Los Angeles; Publishers which were charged with discrimination against independent bookstores; The barring of British book publishers by the European Community Commission from setting minimum prices for book exports to other countries in the European Community; Election of Phyllis VanOrden as president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.