The Fully Electronic Academic Library®

This description of the planning for the first academic library to contain only electronic resources, and no books and no paper of any kind, is derived from the limitless possibilities of our imagination. The concept of such a library and the dramatic changes it will bring in collections, budgets, staffing, services, and buildings are outlined in detail. Finally a few questions are raised as to whether such a library will best serve the information needs of academic institutions in the twenty-first century. So let us think kindly of those who would frighten us by slogans and catch-words about the great and growing mass of the world's literature, and of those who would take pity on our benighted state to solve all of our problems with machines they have not yet thought about. 1