Giving academic departments the right to select all library materials
seems to me to be a step backwards.  After all, that's the way it used
to be and it didn't seem to work that well.  If the library doesn't have
control over the materials to be added where is its claim to professionalism?
We would become clerks working for the faculty.

Judith Hopkins
Central Technical Services
State University of New York at Buffalo
ULCJH@UBVMS.BITNET