Preliminary abundances of lithium and a few other elements have been obtained
for 31 field Am stars with good Hipparcos parallaxes, as well as for 36 normal
A and F stars. Radial and projected rotational velocities were determined as
well. We examine the Li abundance as a function of the stellar parameters: for
normal stars, it is clearly bimodal for Teff < 7500 K, while Am-Fm stars are
all somewhat Li-deficient in this range. The most Li-deficient stars - either
Am or normal - tend to be at least slightly evolved, but the reverse is not
true.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, poster presented at the conference "Element
stratification in stars, 40 years of atomic diffusion", eds. G. Alecian, O.
Richard and S. Vauclair, EAS Publication Series, in pres
