Above all, faculty, students, and staff are able to exploit an information-rich environment for the creation of new information and knowledge. The Distributed Library Initiative is a joint undertaking of the MIT Libraries and IS to improve radically electronic library services. Access to information should be free and unimpeded and not subject to censorship. The Institute resources available for information delivery should be allocated according to a framework that is broadly accepted and known. Access to information should be ubiquitous, easy, and satisfying.
Consumers are the appropriate judges of the value of information.
In cooperation and teamwork in delivering information to the MIT community. MIT should provide leadership in delivering information. In respect for individual privacy in access to and delivery of information. The way MIT and its people do research and pursue education will be revolutionized by enriched access to all forms of information at their fingertips. Sitting at a workstation in the classroom or laboratory, in the sorority, or in the airplane, anyone can retrieve, manipulate, interpret, and integrate information into their personal knowledge banks.