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.