To support information access for the frightened, the reluctant, and the disinterested, the process must be so easy that every faint glimmer of curiosity and willingness is reinforced with positive results. This is a tall but crucial order. The alternative is to maintain information along with money and power as something possessed by an elite and withheld from the rest. What I have described thus far is, to me, very exciting. When I discuss the future with librarians, however, they introduce a note of urgent caution.
Machines become rapidly incompetent as the technology changes.
Staff must continually learn new skills. The blue sky future of libraries and information will come to be and to be accessible to all in proportion to the will of communities to invest resources to make it happen. He calls his office the Center for the Study of Information, Culture and the Environment. From January through June 1993 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney. I would like to thank Patricia Breivick, Robert Burnheim, Judy Ford, Peggy Partello, Patrick O ' Brien, Keith Stavely and Paul Vincent for assistance in the preparation of this article.