Internet is a new tool for library professionals.
It offers new possibilities to make the information services of the library better. A huge, electronic library without walls is available in addition to the traditional collections - and the collections of the electronic library are available to everyone, in principle with the same access possibilities independent of the size or location of the library. The quick entrance of Internet will be the biggest challenge for libraries to date, as the earlier development to an information service organization has happened little by little as technology has progressed. The public libraries simply had no choice to react negatively, as the distributed information network comprising of millions of information fragments will be the most important future publishing channel for all sectors in society, including the public sector. A library background or education is quite useful for Internet use, as one important part of Internet can be seen as a big database formed by distributed publishing systems like WWW, gopher etc.