New opportunities for customization will soon become mandatory levels against which adequate performance will be measured. Access to Scholarship. Increasingly, the scholarly discourse to which all students need access will be carried out in electronic databases. Printed books and journals are likely to persevere for reasons of convenience and archiving, at least until computers achieve the portability of books and migrating old data to new systems becomes less difficult and more certain. Most scholarly materials will, however, be more readily and fully accessible through computers and the Internet.
Citations are more meaningful when hyperlinked to the cited source.
Concepts are better understood when hyperlinked to fuller explanations. Electronic databases may gather in a single location not only text but also audio and video materials. Instructions may be imbedded in the materials that automatically update data that are actively managed at another Internet site. Font size and style, even language, can be customized to the individual reader. New information on specified topics can automatically be pushed to the scholar s desktop.