ABSTRACT
Information and communication technology has dramatically altered the process of teaching and scholarly research. Paradigmatic shifts resulting from the introduction of new and evolving technologies will continue well into the twenty-first century. Digital information and resources have permeated scholarship in so many different ways that often we struggle to clearly identify the impact and articulate the implications. Libraries as supporters of teaching and scholarship have come to rely increasingly on digital information both as supplements to and parallels of print materials. Libraries also are encountering new resources that are ‘‘born digital’’ and have
The relative ease with which digital resources now can be created also means that ‘‘our ability to create, amass and store digital materials far exceeds our current capacity to preserve even that small amount with continuing value.’’1
