- what working liberal arts college science librarians actually do each day
- how they sustain the enthusiasm of America's few science majors
- how they satisfy the library collections and services demands of faculty accustomed to and recruited from the large library facilities of such universities as Harvard or Stanford
- how they use their smaller collections to prepare students for the riches of a Johns Hopkins or Duke when students go on to medical school or graduate school
- why they choose the tensions and challenges of small liberal arts colleges over the better pay and recognition of larger universities and corporations
- how campus finances, politics, traditions, and geography play a role in establishing a separate science library
- how to weed, store, and move voluminous science collections
- how elite, small liberal arts schools are prioritizing budgets in an age of conversion from print sources to electronic access