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This article highlights "Living the Future 5: Strategically Striving and Surviving" conference which will be held on April 14 to 17, 2004 at Tucson, Arizona. The conference will tackle issues regarding transformational library organizational changes, teams, process improvement, strategic planning, and the changing roles of library staff. It is jointly sponsored by the University of Arizona, Association of College & Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries.

Offers briefs relating to library science for January 1999. New York City librarians suing the local municipal union for alleged embezzlement and vote fraud; Why University of Arizona biologist Michael Rosenzweig is publishing the journal `Evolutionary Ecology Research'; The National Archives to cut 820 hours from former United States President Richard Nixon's White House tapes; Recommendation of library users in Dallas, Texas for the elimination of fines; More.

The article highlights "Living the Future 6: WOW—Where Next?" conference for collaborative thinking about the future in Tucson, Arizona on April 5-8, 2006. Participants from all library types are welcome to this event. Discussions will center on collaborations, leadership in a time of increasing economic change, and challenges at the University of Arizona Library and other libraries in the U.S. And the conference combines excellent weather, a low cost venue, and a group of lively participants.

Presents news briefs related to libraries. Launch by the University of Arizona's Graduate Library School of a satellite-relayed course of instruction in school librarianship; Donation by the Polish National Alliance of the 45,000-items of Polish-interest materials in the disbanded Alliance College Library to the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library; Donation by Barbara and Leonard S. Goodman of their collection of more than 230 fine editions of Latin works printed between 1477 and the early 1700s to Pennsylvania State University; Other news.