Strong attention is needed now on copyright. Libraries want to see balance in copyright law. We need for the publishers to survive economically and librarians do value publishers, but we also need to find a balance that allows for fair use. There are many distance education programs that do not provide adequate library support. Providing equal access to education means also providing equal access to library resources.
Information literacy is increasingly important.
Students need to know when they have an information need, to know how to locate the needed information, how to evaluate it, and how to use it. The World Wide Web is a good tool, but it is not a library. Try to do a search on WWW and then do the same search in a library and compare the results.