The New Economy presents unique challenges and opportunities for all citizens. It represents the uses of new technologies and thought processes within a new global paradigm.
Libraries are often the first place public citizens encounter new information technologies.
A premise of E-learning is to link innovations of the New Economy with the building of an improved knowledge base and information skill level for all citizens. This can and should start with all students, for an unenlightened public is the anathema to democracy. While education is a life long endeavor and libraries serve that need, it is the students of today that will become the information users and creators of tomorrow. Information literacy the ability to find and use information allows students to live and learn in the New Economy global paradigm by actively engaging them in learning and by developing their information expertiseof the school, changes in the expanding knowledge base, and partnerships with the broader learning community.