So read them and think about postmodernism, professional practice, received wisdom - and alternative approaches. And the increasing need to know what we want to do, to be imaginative and flexible, and to build the future on principles, rather than necessarily on tradition. Library Link Letters We would welcome your thoughts on the above Editorial and on ways in which Library and Information Management On-line can help you to keep abreast of your field. The complexity and ambivalence of cultural experience is a well-known aspect of consumerism and late capitalism. Partly a search for the authentic and partly the consumption of the popular, such experience presents us with a set of challenges - about what is real and what is image, what is itself and what is irony, what is historically so and what has been detached from historical context.
Experience is increasingly a commodity provided by tourism and the heritage industry.
Heritage is an area where postmodernism offers unique relevant perspectives. This article considers these issues as they arise in teaching heritage courses in higher education. Library Management 1999, Vol. Moves on to discuss how libraries can continue to provide high quality, structured access to their collections and the need for strategic management of this process. Emphasises the importance of defining what the library wants to achieve, setting objectives, and maintaining the capacity for flexible response to changing conditions, using as a case study the development and implementation of the British Library cataloguing strategy.