The Challenge To Be Relevant in the 21st Century: Abstracts and Full Text Documents of Papers and Demos Given at the [International Association of Technological University Libraries] IATUL Conference (Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5, 1998), Volume 18.

This proceedings of the 1998 conference of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) contains the full text of the following papers: "A Library Ready for 21st Century Services: The Case of the University of Science and Technology (UST) Library, Kumasi, Ghana" (Helena Rebecca Asamoah-Hassan); "Libraries in Partnership: Defining Our Core Roles for the 21st Century" (Gaynor Austen); "Library Purchasing Consortia: Achieving Value for Money and Shaping the Emerging Electronic Marketplace" (David Ball and Jo Pye); "The UK Electronic Libraries Programme" (Michael Breaks); "Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century" (Alan Bundy); "Consortia Licensing, Information as Infrastructure" (Andy Crowther); "Measure for Measure: A Post-Modern Critique of Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services" (Rowena Cullen); "The KMAT: Benchmarking Knowledge Management" (Martha de Jager); "GAELIC: Consortial Strategies for Survival" (Heather Edwards); "Avoiding the Reefs and Rips While Riding a Relevant Technology Wave into Rural Regions" (John Frylinck and Vicki Williamson); "Factors Related to Faculty Publishing Productivity" (Carol Ann Hughes); "Doing More for Less" (Mike Johnson); "Smarter Higher Education: Information Literacy Adds Value" (Cathy-Mae Karelse); "The Implementation of the Greek Union Catalog" (Anthi Katsirikou); "User Access to the Hybrid Library" (Peter Leggate and David Price); "Riding the Technology Wave" (Pierre Malan); "Library Resource-Sharing in the Network-Centric World" (Rob McGee); "People in a Technology Driven Future: On the Social Relations of New Information Technologies [Keynote Address]" (Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama); "Using the Internet To Support Lifelong Learning: The Role of the Librarian" (Robert Newton, Rita Marcella, Alan MacLennan, and Iain Middleton); "Launching Transformations at the Academic Information Service, University of Pretoria" (Heila Pienaar, Mary-Rose Russell, Yzelle Roets, and Hilda Kriel); "Collaboration between a Technological University Library and Tenant Firms in a Technology Park in Thailand: New Challenges for Librarianship in a Developing Country" (Nongyao Premkamolnetr); "Every Time I Figure out Where It's At, Somebody Moves It!" (Eugenie Prime); "Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor and Roles of Information Professionals" (Edna Reid);"Library Leadership and Re-Engineering: An Israeli Experience" (Nurit Roitberg); "Global Literacy Initiatives: The United States and Developing Nations" (Lynne Rudasill); "The Truth Is in the Details, Lessons in Inter-University Library Collaboration" (Murray C. Shepherd); "Millennial Megatrends: Forces Shaping the 21st Century" (Philip H. Spies); "Relevance from Reality" (Talikka Marja); "Remote Electronic Resources and the OPAC: Illustrated by the UNISA Library Experience" (Ina Van der Merwe, Welna Van Eden, and Sandra Hartzer); "User-Education in a Flexible Learning Environment: An Opportunity To Stay Relevant in the 21st Century" (A.J. Van Vuren and J.C. Henning); and "The New Library, A Hybrid Organization" (Leo Waaijers). (MES)