EDITORIAL 

Anne M. Galler 

I am pleased to present a series of articles dealing with various aspects of education for librarianship in 
the last decade of the 20th century, and preparing library and information professionals for the 21st 
century. 

The first, by Jamshid Beheshti, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information 
Studies at McGill University, Montreal, deals exclusively with the new technologies, and their introduction 
into the library/information studies curriculum. He emphasizes the fact that the knowledge of both 
hardware and software is indispensable, although each continuum is different and requires different 
levels of competency. Dr. Beheshti's publications appear in the Journal of American Society for 

Information Science, Information Processing and Management, CD-ROM Professional, and Information 

Technology and Libraries and he has presented papers at many conferences. For the past three years he 
has been conducting a research project on creating a new interface for online catalogues, referred to as 
the Public Access Catalogue Extension (PJ\CE). 

Adele Fasick, our second contributor, has written a thoughtful and incisive article on "The Future of 
Education for the Information Professions." She talks about the changes brought about by technology 
and the need for education for changing times, as well as the maintaining of the high level of service the 
library/information profession has always provided. Dr. Fasick is a longtime member of the Faculty of 
Information Studies at the University of Toronto and was Dean from 1990-1995. She has written many 
articles for professional journals and her most recently published book is Managing Children's Services 

in Public Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 1991). She is currently the editor of a database of research 
abstracts on library services for young people being prepared by the Children's Section of IFLA. 

Several more articles on various aspects of library education are planned for future issues of Education 
Libraries. 

As on previous occasions, the "Selections from ERIC" are in line with the topic of the articles featured 
in this issue. There are also "New and Forthcoming Reference" books selected by Gladys I. Dratch and 
Deborah Garson, and a variety of books reviewed in depth, and a video review. 

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