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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 answers to questions on the topics of serials and CD-ROMS, patron privacy and "No Smoking" policies in libraries. Coordination of ERIC or Wilsondisc with search hits that are actually in the library serial holdings so that those hits are flagged, such as a new program called MATCH'EM; Patron privacy rules and laws at Phoenix College; New "Smoking/Clean Indoor Air Policy" adopted by the Akron-Summit County (Ohio) Public Library which will prohibit smoking and the carrying of lighted smoking materials in all ASCPL facilities and vehicles beginning in March 1989.

The author comments on developments in the U.S. library profession. He argues that he is more at home with issues related to traditional librarianship than he is with the current professional problems. He describes the conditions that defined the nature of the job of librarians of his generation during the 1950s and 1960s wherein they were drawn to the process of bringing books and people together. He describes an incident at the basement of the main library of the Arizona State University.

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.

Recounts the establishment of a library in Bisbee, Arizona, by the Copper Queen Mining Co. in 1885. Civilizing influence of the library on Bisbee; Key features of the Copper Queen Library in the 1970s; Policy implications on libraries and library science.