The Reference Librarian of the Future: A Scenario.

Abstract

In keeping with the futuristic tone of RQs silver anniver sary year set by our appearance in the film, Back to the Fu ture, this special essay on the future of reference librarian ship by Thomas T. Surprenant and Claudia Perry-Holmes is offered to initiate a forum for reader re sponse. The RQEditorial Advisory Board will select three rejoinders to Surprenant and Perry-Holmes for publica tion in the Summer 1986 issue. Please send double-spaced responses of no more than four hundred words to the edi tor, Kathleen Heim, by March 1, 1986, for judging.