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In the course of the conversation Stan revealed that UCSC Pat Crowe was not replacing him but combining his slot with another to The University of Arizona", create a documents and maps librarian. I ventured that this was not SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER a totally bad thing, and that, in fact, I had been a documents and Christine Kollen The Universiy of Arizona", maps librarian for all of my practice career. We commented on the ADVERTISING MANAGER number of universities who were either not replaCing full time map David A. Cobb librarians, or otherwise cutting back on their map collections. Later Harvard University in the conversation Stan offered this: DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Jim Coombs "I have come to the conclusion that, given the general eco Southwest Missouri Stale University nomic situation in the U.s. and California in particular, that EDITORIAL BOARD libraries and archives as well as all public-funded agencies have Ralph E. Ehrenberg Library of Congress seen the "golden years" where we could take on every new demand Phillip Hoehn or technological innovation and satisfy the publics expectation as University of California, Berkeley well as our own professional standards for the delivery of informa Alice C. Hudson ew York Public Library tion-almost regardless of cost. We are being forced to downsize Mary L. Larsgaard our own thinking about what we can and should provide. As Uni\;ersity of California, Santa Barbara members of the public, as taxpayers, we should not expect our Roben S. Martin State Library of Texas libraries to be open at all hours of the usual day, nor all days of the Stanley D. Stevens week; and, Within our libraries, some services can only be provided University of California, Santa Cruz (retired) on a limited basis. These are the realities of post-cold war econom CONSULTING EDITORS Helen Jane Arnlstrong ics." University of Florida And therein lies something for us all to think about. Tony Campbell The long post-WWII economic boom is long since over. So is British Library Larry Carver the willingness of the country in general to fund education at ever University of California, Santa Barbal'a higher levels. Many factors contribute to this lack of willingness to Michael P. Conzen increase, or just maintain, funding for education. We probably University of Chicago Edward H.Dahl oversold ourselves in the heady expansionist days of the New National Archives of Canada Frontier and the Great Society. Turns out education doesn't solve all Larry Cruse social problems, and throwing money at education doesn't neces University of California, San Diego Francis Herbert sarily produce a better system. We could argue the above points, Royal Geographical Society but since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 the tide of Roben W. Karrow, Jr. Newberry Library current thinking has been running against us. Less obvious may be Barbara B. 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