In the introductory paper Patricia Senn Breivik provides background information on and an overview of a national symposium. This introduction is followed by the full text of nine papers presented at the symposium: (1) "The Academic Library and Education for Leadership" (Major R. Owens, U.S. House of Representatives); (2) "Academic Libraries and Regional Economic Development" (Joan B. Fiscella, University of Houston, Houston Park, and Joan D. Ringel, Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry); (3) "Academic Libraries and Teacher Education Reform--The Education of the Professional Teacher" (Jo Ann Carr and Kenneth Zeichner); (4) "The Academic Library and the Non-Traditional Student" (Colette A. Wagner and Augusta S. Kappner); (5) "Excellence in Education--Libraries Facilitating Learning for Minority Students" (James A. Hefner and Lelia G. Rhodes, Jackson State University); (6) "It's Academic--The Politics of the Curriculum in American Higher Education" (Irving J. Spitzberg, Jr., Council for Liberal Learning of the Association of American Colleges); (7) "The Jewel in the Temple--University Library Networks as Paradigms for Universities" (Louis Vagianos); (8) "Libraries and Learning" (E. Gordon Gee and Patricia Senn Breivik, University of Colorado); and (9) "Technology and Transformation in Academic Libraries" (Ward Shaw, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries). (KM)