WHEN the 1976 AALS Conference Planning Committee chose the future of library education as the focus for several program sessions, two members of the committee and one of their colleagues undertook the task of gathering ideas about the future of library/ information science education. Information from a broad range of interested librarians and library educators was obtained to use as a basis for those sessions. This is a report of that project, which was summarized briefly at the 1976 Conference. The study was conducted between March, 1975, and December, 1976, and utilized the Delphi Method, a technique which has been used in a number of projects concerned with forecasting future educational events. The Delphi Method, based on the assumption that the intuitive judgments of experts in a specific field are a valuable source of insight into the future, is designed to obtain the most reliable possible consensus of opinion from a group of well-informed people by having them respond individually and anonymously to a series of questionnaires which are interspersed with controlled feedback.
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Vance et al. (1977) studied this question.