Provides nine articles: research on libraries and librarianship, 1997; changing faces of library education (ALA-accredited graduate program title changes); number of libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; highlights of NCES surveys; library acquisition expenditures; price indexes for public and academic libraries; state rankings of selected public library data, 1995; library buildings, 1997--renovation role model; and expenditures for resources in school library media centers, FY1995-96. (PEN)