In our frantic efforts to deal with change, adopt new technologies, promote library cooperation, and otherwise enhance library and information services, we must not lose sight of broader professional concerns and issues. Much of what we now do will change. The technology that we are seeking to use will change. The nature of our profession will change. If we can establish and maintain a sound ethical basis for our professional practices we will have done much to ensure that, despite all of those changes, librarianship will have a continued independent role to play, and will be respected for that role, in the development of a strong information society.