This report summarizes activities conducted from fall 1984 through spring 1985, under a planning grant from the Council on Library Resources for Innovation and Improvement of Basic and Supplementary Education for Academic and Research Libraries. The report includes a review of selected literature related to educational programs for academic librarians broadly related to information resources management (IRM); the results of a needs assessment conducted in the state of Oklahoma regarding the appropriateness of a post-Master of Library Science (MLS) certificate program in IRM; and transcripts of the discussion that took place at the fall 1984 colloquium on the topic of IRM at the School of Library Science, University of Oklahoma. Appendices include the IRM Program Survey and the following papers presented at the colloquium: "Information Resources Management and Librarianship" (Evelyn Daniel, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University); "Information Resources Management Skills for Academic and Research Librarians" (Robert Runyon, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries); and "Report on the Conference on the Intellectual Foundations for Information Professionals: Criteria for New Educational Programs" (Herbert Achleitner, School of Information Management, Emporia State University). (Author/THC)