This proceeding of the 1998 Information Resources Management Association International Conference contains 80 full papers, 87 research in progress papers, 33 abstracts, and 15 panel, workshop, and tutorial summaries. The papers focus on issues of managing information technology (IT) in organizations around the world. Issues covered include: accounting information systems, the human side of IT, global IT management, IT management in developing countries, emerging technologies management, IT in Asia-Pacific countries, strategic IT management, telecommunications and networking technologies, IT management in healthcare, database management technologies, end-user computing, decision support technologies, IT in libraries, computer-aided software engineering tools, multimedia computing, object-oriented technology, societal issues of information resources management (IRM), IT education, distance learning technologies, expert systems technologies, IT innovation and diffusion, IRM in government, software process improvement, and Internet and intranets. (Includes an author index. (DLS)