This is the opportunity to change old concepts, to define new rules and to introduce changes in librarians' duties, in readers services, in budgeting etc. Today it is accepted that both the traditional and the electronic library will exist together in the near future. This means that investments of budgets and manpower are still required in the traditional library. At the same time additional resources are needed for the electronic library. Leadership is essential to foresee trends especially the changing balance between the electronic and the traditional library and to plan, prepare and absorb changes.
Leadership is needed to initiate, convince and take actual steps towards fulfilling new targets.
A university library which wishes to gain a respected status must invest continuing efforts in absorbing changes and in adopting new technologies. It is also most important to convince the university management in the new concepts and needs. Sometimes the initial situation is harder, like at the Technion with a central library and twenty departmental libraries which administra-tively report to the faculties and not to the central library. It was a long way to create one library system at the Technion with a unified set of rules for professional work. Later this was the tool to change the entire concept and to create one electronic library at the Technion.