Much of the emphasis on collections has given way to access. It is important to retain diaries, manuscripts and primary sources as footprints of social change. His many years of experience in libraries at Berkeley and Cornell has increased his understanding of the needs and technologies for preservation and the problems of library management. It is a time of exponential growth and decay for our collections in the face of bounded resources. Not all problems are reducible to technological solutions of the digital world.
Digital technologies are likely to play an important role in the years ahead.
The pace of change will be faster or slower depending on the technology, resources and institutions, and bounded by cultural economic, social and other factors. The fact is that digital technology that scales with exponential growth is the only option where we can accomplish twice as much for the same amount. He pointed to the example of the Web and use of the Internet as major methods for accessing information. Our traditional view of libraries is broken and not sustainable. We are caught between the problems of exponential growth, faculty demand, and old funding formulas.