50th Anniversary Feature- The Unintended Revolution in Academic Libraries:

(ACRL) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The years since its founding have been a period of great change and progress in academic librari-anship. Academic libraries have evolved from relatively small, self-sufficient insti-tutions to large, multifaceted organiza-tions electronically interconnected and linked in ways not yet envisioned fifty years ago. The librarians who work in these institutions, although sharing many of the same attitudes and values of their predecessors, are called upon to have knowledge of processes and to provide services unforeseen in 1939. Academic li