In an article earlier this year, Katie Hafner of the New York Times documented how history could potentially disappear in the digital age.1 She noted that increasingly a growing generation of researchers prefers primary source material-the backbone of an archive-to be in electronic format, easily at their fi ngertips. This dependence on electronic information gathering has created a quandary for archives and academic institutions. Traditional archivists lament that this could be the death of the archive, with users preferring to use a computer rather than coming to a physical space and consulting paper documents. Their fears appear to be unwarranted given the fact that online research often encourages scholars to visit archives in the hope of discovering more source material. This change in information gathering is transforming the way scholars perform research, and indeed, it is changing scholarship itself. Thus, archivists and librarians need to look ahead to future trends of information science and think along less traditional means of access and communication in order to remain relevant.