Promoting access of historical newspapers in the north Majken Bremer-Laamanen Access via the computer is changing the behaviour of the researcher and the ordinary citizen of today.
Information is sought from computers on almost any matter.
People are getting used to direct access. In time, the use of the collections in national and special research libraries will diminish if not special attention is paid to digitisation and the extended services of the collections. The digitisation of collections is however an expensive and time-consuming matter. At the same time there is this great opportunity for the national and special libraries to serve the whole country in a totally different way than before. It is possible for the remote researcher to use the collections on site.