This issue of Library Trends explores parliamentary libraries in different parts of the world in the past and present and also offers some thoughts about their future. We are grateful for having been given this opportunity to publish the papers presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, August 2009. The papers were presented in a j...

John D. Shank is Instructional Design Librarian and Nancy H. Dewald is Reference Librarian at Penn State Berks; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected], respectively. The authors wish to thank Dr. Mary Lou D’Allegro, formerly Senior Director of Planning, Research, and Assessment at Penn State Berks, for her assistance in the survey analysis. © John D. Shank and Nancy H. Dewald This study seeks t...

Perhaps a greater challenge than keeping the walls porous between disciplines is to ensure that the very specialized work done within fields retains its integrity when involved in collaborative efforts. Keeping this in mind, Academy and the Internet is a commendable collection that should be read as a critique, used as a reference, and viewed as coming as close to the ‘unreachable’ conceptual p...