It is, however, an information place where familiar constraints of time, of how long it takes to complete an informational task, and of space, of where one is able to look for information, seem to have been lifted. With the right software, people and information who are quite far apart can be linked together as if they were in the same space. Bolter's claim that a new medium provides us with a new space suggests that we should be sensitive to the environment and culture in which we find information. Thus, we should be aware that the Akron Law Review which, in its old space, was bounded by the walls of the library, the covers of the book, and the margins of the printed page, has landed in an environment which has different and much more flexible boundaries. As in the past, of course, there will continue to be a great deal of information in law reviews that will be of little interest to lay people or to professionals in other fields.
Law reviews are, quite understandably, aimed at an audience of legal professionals.
Yet, it should be the content of the material, not the complexity of the space in which the material is located, that deters non-traditional audiences from reading these materials. The increasingly accessible nature of the computer network provides one key to changes in who may use the Akron Law Review in the future. The physical boundaries and physical constraints that are always an element in a decision about when and where to use information, become less constraining in a digital world. Yet, it is not simply issues of access that are changing. Professor Hall's experience is relevant, I believe, because it reminds us that there are cultural forces at work in all spaces in that there are assumptions about what it is possible to do in particular spaces and in how the space should be used.