ABSTRACT
Technical convergence describes the ongoing evolutionary process, brought about by advances in the electronic storage and networking of academic information, in which there is a coming together and overlapping of the roles of libraries, computer centres and academic departments. The effect of this with regard to the two principal information services is twofold: first, the library has changed its function from the holding of information to one of providing access to it; and, second, the computer centre, no longer required to service large centralized computers, has a newer role in providing networking expertise to enable the flow of that information through the university. This is matched with a convergence of user need as academics and students exploit electronic information.
