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Reviews a Diversity Fair held at the American Library Association Conference, June 2002. Attention is drawn to the range of programmes organised in US libraries relating to diversity in its widest interpretation, and a number are highlighted.

Provides a brief review of trends in library management in 2000, indicating issues of current concern.

Reviews the general literature of management relevant to the information and library professions, and that of the management of information, knowledge‐based and library services published in 2002. Themes emerging at major conferences are noted and issues of growing concern are identified.

Focuses on the year 2000, reviewing the periodical literature of information and library services management, and of the relevant literature from the field of management in general. Notes the themes of major conferences in the field of information and library services management, and of reference tools for library managers.

What is Electronic Publishing? Electronic Publishing (EP) is the application of communications technology to distribute information. In the context of libraries, it typically means large, often textual databases, stored on powerful computers, from which information is selectively retrieved using terminals linked to the computers via the telephone system.

THINGS have travelled full circle. There was a time when the Swedes were busy learning from our enterprise and experiences, especially in the fields of industry and commerce; now the position is somewhat reversed and we are eager to profit from them in such diverse fields as social welfare, labour relations, modern design generally, and what is more relevant here, librarianship. Sweden has also much to offer from its cultural life through its novelists, poets, artists and musicians, many of whom deserve wider audiences both here and in other countries.

Looks at the Editorship of Professor Patricia Layzell Ward of Library Management from 1997‐2003. Examines some of the areas which articles under her editorship have covered.

On the 19th January twenty‐eight Aslib members arrived at Belgrave Square to participate in an evening meeting called Communication Games: A Workshop, which was led by the authors. The presentation of the meeting in a workshop format was a new departure for Aslib, and initially gave rise to some hesitancy in the group. As the evening progressed and as the games were played, this hesitancy evaporated and the group came together in the sharing and learning which was the point of the meeting.

My brief is to discuss the realization of staff potential, and it seems to me to be essential to consider this question in relation to our current and likely future situation within library and information systems and their operational environment.

An earlier version of this article appeared in print in 1981 following participation in a workshop which had taken what seemed to me to be a negative view of discrimination. It was also drafted at a time when I had started to apply for posts in order to attain the role that for me was important. Soon afterwards I achieved this goal and had a bonus in moving to Western Australia. The earlier article has been tidied up and some later publications have been added.