This collection of essays and responses by 18 specialists and librarians focuses on three research perspectives: (1) governmental, economic, and technological changes; (2) possible results of change in the humanities, education, and social institutions; and (3) the process of change and ways to create conditions for change. Each specialist's essay is followed by a librarian's response which highlights the essay's implications for librarians and expresses a point of view. Papers include the following: The Last Quarter-Century: Change as Challenge--or as Catastrophe, by Kenneth W. Thompson; The Future of Government: Trends and Emerging Conditions, by Clement Bezold; Prospects for Women in the Paid Labor Market, by Ralph Smith; Interactive Electronic Media, by Bruce A. Sherwood; Project: Knowledge 2000, by R. Lynn Carroll; Education in America: The Next Twenty-five Years, by Harold G. Shane; Changes in Sexual Identities, by Helena Z. Lopata; and Creating the Conditions for Change, by Donald P. Ely. The librarian respondents are Jesse H. Shera, Eileen D. Cooke, Jane Cooney, Gerald R. Brong, John P. McDonald, Crystal M. Bailey, Gerald R. Shields, and Hugh C. Atkinson.(FM)