Library administration has never been more challenging than in the last decade of the 20th Century, as it finds itself on the threshold of the Information Age. This should be the era of the information professional; yet librarians are increasingly challenged by the information industry, computer professionals, MIS-trained analysts, and their own faculties and students to justify their status, information budgets, and space. Library administrators can either cling to the traditional skills they have always employed or build upon those skills of information organization and instruction to assume a central role in this new era.