ABSTRACT
Will tomorrow’s readers be able to graze among electronic documents, books, and multimedia as easily as they have been able to peruse books at their favorite bookstore–sitting in easy chairs and drinking espresso coffees–before buying them (or not buying at all)? Will they be able to do the electronic equivalent of borrowing books from their public or college library? How can libraries make information available to their public as technologies change? As the copyright law changes? The answers to these questions are being debated today not only among authors, publishers, and librarians but at the highest policy and law-making levels of this country.
