The Future of Libraries, Threshold, Winter 2003, 13-17, is a forum featuring several perspectives on the library as a place and its role in education. The first essay by Clifford Lynch, "The New Dimensions of Learning Communities," summarizes an accessible digital world worth realizing: "The treasures that have been locked up in the special collections of our great libraries are now being opened up on the Internet in digital form, allowing students and the public to directly explore essential source materials that have historically been the priviledged preserve of a few advanced scholars who could travel to the places where the rarities were held." (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)
Posted by
Garrett at 1/28/2004 05:48:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
