Toward the library of the future.

Over the past decade libraries have become increasingly aware of the revolutionary impact of developments in information technology on their key function. The new developments challenge the library's traditional role as electronic information products and services open up a previously unimaginable array of options. The author contemplates a vision of the future in which the unpredictability of the human mind interacts with an expanding array of new technologies and libraries strive to develop an information infrastructure to serve teaching and research in universities.