This issue is designed to provide delegates and other participants in the New York State Governor's Conference in 1990 and the White House Conference on Library and Information Services in July 1991 with an overview of the current status and future needs of libraries and librarianship in the state. Following a message from Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York, the issue presents the following reports: (1) "Steps into the 1990s" (Richard C. Wade); (2) "The Idea of a Library in 2001" (Thomas J. Galvin); (3) "Library and Information Services for Productivity" (Robert Kraushaar and Barbara Beverley); (4) "Libraries, Literacy, and the Information Society" (Helen Huguenor Lyman); (5) "The Library As a Source of Civic Literacy" (Stephen L. Schechter); (6) "Access" (Patricia Glass Schuman); (7) "Saving Our Vanishing Past" (Carole F. Huxley); (8) "Managing Technology for Today's Library Services" (Teresa Strozik); (9) "Government Information Policy for the 1990s" (Sharon S. Dawes); (10) "Libraries and Learning" (Timothy S. Healy); (11) "Library Services and Programs in Public Libraries" (Bruni Verges); (12) "Library Users" (Andrew Geddes); (13) "Staffing" (Janet Steiner); (14) "Collections" (Kathleen Garland); (15) "Library Facilities" (Elaine Cohen); (16) "Who Makes Decisions on Library Services?" (Roberta G. Cade); (17) "Funding for Libraries in New York: A Primer" (Patricia Mautino); (18) "Public Library Services to Rural People" (Bernard Vavrek); (19) "Neighborhood Libraries in 1998: A Futuristic View" (Stanley A. Ransom); and (20) "A 1990s View of Library Systems" (Robert Wedgeworth). Also included in this issue are: "Public Library Services for a Diverse People: The Roles of Federal Government"; "Twelve Years Ago"; and "Regents Advisory Council on Libraries Report to the Board of Regents Cultural Education Committee, May 24, 1990." (SD)