This Report [Local Places Global Connections: Libraries in the Digital Age] focuses on how libraries are coping with the use of new technologies to maintain their role as society\’s primary information providers, what challenges they are facing, and who is doing a good job.
\”The question, \”What will happen to libraries?\” has a larger context, for we as a nation find ourselves asking the same of universities, of public media, of religious institutions, and of government\’s social mandate. Each of these questions, in turn, derives from an even more basic question: \”How will Americans live their lives as citizens, as economic actors, and as social beings?\” These, after all, are the great questions of the twenty-first century, and they constitute our challenge. It is my fervent hope that when our distant descendants read the literature of the twenty-first century they will find references to libraries of the power of Shakespeare\’s and Jefferson\’s. Whether they will or not depends on our efforts today.\”
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