Each day new technology upends the information world and changes the players, policies, and practices we once knew. Add to this flux ongoing legal decisions, legislative directives, and the media, and you've got countless divergent voices swirling through cyberspace. How can a busy information professional define the issues, answers, and options that synch with broader changes?<P>In Coyle's Information Highway Handbook, long-time "Net-izen" Karen Coyle filters the Internet noise with a librarian's savvy and sensibility to offer a selective, one-stop resource on the information future. A University of California librarian and leader in national forums and debates, Coyle frames pertinent issues with essays on copyright, access, privacy, censorship, and the information marketplace. An essential backgrounder to bring students or staff up to speed and to understand your own role in the information derby. Indexed. Updates on the Web.<P>"Coyle's Information Highway Handbook will help both the library community and the general public better understand what is at stake in public policy decisions around new information technology. And it should spur more public involvement. In the future, when we look back at the period that shaped and structured online delivery and access to information, this book may well contain the only comprehensive set of primary documents reflecting the various viewpoints on how that environment should be structured." Howard Besser, Visiting Associate Professor, University of California-Berkeley<P>"What an exciting format! Coyle's cogent analysis, along with primary source documents, balances current view and historical perspective on hotspots like copyright, privacy, censorship and universal service. It's useful to have these source documents in one place." Nancy Bolt, Deputy State Librarian, Colorado State Library and Adult Education Office

Pricing information goods / Hal R. Varian — The cultural legacy of the "modern library" for the future (excerpt) / Francis Miksa — Taking on the green paper on copyright : the concerned parties / Karen Coyle — Why we made PGPfone, and why you need it / Philip R. Zimmermann.