摘要：The debate over the appropriate roles of the government (public sector) and the private sector vis-a-vis provision of information services and products has intensified since the Reagan administration took office in January 1981. As John Berry, in a recent editorial in Library Journal, succinctly put it, "that debate has already taken on a surprising specificity [ 1 ]." Berry goes on to cite several examples, including a move "to dismantle the National Technical Information Service," reduction in public offerings of both the National Archives and the Government Printing Office, and Senator Orrin Hatch's amendment, subsequently defeated, to Senate Bill 800, the 1981 reauthorization of the Medical Library Assistance Act (MLAA).
