The 16 papers in this collection focus on the impact of new technologies on libraries and their managers: (1) "Has Technology Failed Us?" (Frederick W. Lancaster); (2) "The Wheel of Fortune: Academic Libraries. IT and the Re-emerging Past" (Alasdair Paterson); (3) "Management Strategies for Enhancing the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (Mary M. Huston and Anita Grahn); (4) "Training Issues in Management of Information Services in an Advanced Technological World" (Ellen Hoffmann); (5) "The Next Generation of Information Products" (Arnoud de Kemp); (6) "'Free' or 'Fee' Information Resources in Academic Libraries--The Case of Small and/or Developing Countries" (Shmuel Sever); (7) "Providing Scholars with Information from Electronic Books" (Frederick Kilgour); (8) "Micro Management: Multi-Tasking and CD-ROM Applications" (David Price); (9) "CD-ROM-Retrieval in Heterogeneous Networks--Conceptions, Solutions, Conclusions, and Influence on Library Management" (Christian Heinisch); (10) "Co-operative Bibliographic Utilities as a Platform To Support Library Automation and Catalogue Retroconversion in Local Library Systems" (Ronald M. Schmidt); (11) "Managing Information Technology in Academic Libraries" (David R. McDonald); (12) "Information Retrieval at the University Library Vienna--RDB--The Austrian Legal Database" (Renate Niegl); (13) "OPAC Extension to Conventional Data with Bibliographic Expert Systems" (Karl F. Stock); (14) "Teaching End-Users How To Access Online Systems in Libraries and Gaining Access to Online Catalogs through Networks" (Maureen Pastine); (15) "Information Services and Information Utilities--A Management for the User" (Sigrid Reinitzer); and (16) "Information Technology and User Education Management" (Dieter Schmidmaier). A seminar agenda, lists of participants and of participating vendors, and a summary of the conference by Philip Bryant are also provided. (MAB)