Among this year's best are articles on the Reagan administration's attack on the gathering of information and dissemination of government publications, by James Bolner, Ken Carlborg, Joe Morehead, and ALA; on libraries charging for information on databases, by Margaret F. Stieg and Carlton Rochell; on library services for young adults, by Richard Ashford and Mary K. Chelton; and on Jesse Shera, last of the library philosophers, by H. Curtis Wright.