ABSTRACT
Let me start with some unqualified predictions concerning the impact of electronic and networking technologies on the delivery of scholarly information: between now and the end of 1991 nothing will change noticeably. Fifteen years from now, in the year 2006, we will look back and say, “Good Lord, how much things have changed.” Further, whatever the situation in the year 2006, information will be accessed and delivered in a more individualized manner than it is now. We will also be able to search for information in an interactive, multimedia format, and that information will be delivered to us more quickly than it is now, even in real time. We will use information in new ways that we haven’t even thought of yet.
