CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Libraries and Other Networked Botanies -- Magic and Hypersystems A New Orderliness for Libraries -- Governing Library Networks The Quick and the Dead for the 1990s -- The Bionic Library -- Supping with the Devil New Library Alliances in the Information Age -- The Information Ark Selection Issues in the Preservation Process -- The Tomorrow Librarian -- Library Collections and Distance Information New Models of Collection Development for the Twenty- First Century -- Libraries, Language, and Change Defining the Information Present -- Special Collections Still Special after All These Years -- Shared Collection Building Constructing the Twenty- First- Century Relational Research Library -- Giving Up Prophecy The Future of Information Cooperation -- INDEX.