To strengthen our position we need to develop a theory of digital libraries. Understand its causes and effects. Predict how people will use the resources and scholarly communication. Build a relationship between libraries and users. Look for ways to become more theoretical.
Cheap stunts are okay, and leadership is our only choice.
Ask not what the internet can do for you, but you can do for the internet. This presentation offered more questions than answers and tried, in a small way, to predict a bit of the future when it comes to copyright. Shipley then alluded to the possibility of publishers skirting the copyright issues and fair use issues through the use of licenses. These licenses will provide restrictions that fair use would normally accommodate, but since the licenses are binding contracts, the issues of fair use which libraries have enjoyed will be eliminated. Poley began by stating that people are looking to the information highway as a vehicle for education.