Why Bi or Li: A Forum Available to Purchase

The participants in this forum were asked to respond in 500 words or less to a hypothetical question: why have a bibliographic or library instruction program? posed by an equally hypothetical administrative superior. An editorial assistant, upon receipt of all responses, sent copies of each to all participants so that they might comment further in 500 words or less. The copies that were sent for comment were made totally anonymous, in order to assure that comments would not be ad hominem, but rather based on substance. (Names have been inserted in the printed comments by the editor.) Another consideration in preserving initial anonymity was the editor's desire to not know which response had been authored by which of the participants until after his own comment was written and submitted.