ASSUMPTIONS DIE HARD DEATHS

As you leaf through the pages of this new issue of The Bottom Line, you will see reprints of two very important documents, the American Library Association's Annual State of the Nation's Libraries report and President Bill Clinton's Technology Plan for his administration. Why devote so many pages to these two documents? First, and most obviously, so that library administrators have a copy of record of both these major pieces of information that so affect our budgets. But second, and more importantly, because they are and will be two of the keystones that will help shape our futures as professionals and institutions.