These 100 titles will now be available to our faculty and students twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, significantly improving acces s over the paper journals. We cannot be assured that our paper versions are not missing pages or can continue to withstand photocopying. Tom's second point is that indirect costs for hardware, networks, salaries, and space are growing faster than any savings we will realize by avoiding those costs outlined in my first article. Again, I disagree with Tom's interpretation. Many colleges a nd universities have already invested in the sunk costs of installing high-speed networks, wiring dorms, and buying computers for faculty and staff.
Students arrive on our campuses with their computers in hand.
And, faculty are redesigning courses to ta ke advantage of the new digital information. Many are creating homepages with links to assigned articles from our digital libraries, thus helping us avoid the costs of providing these same articles via course reserve operations. The digital library adds value to the substantial campus investment in technology. Indeed, we have made a poor investment in technology if all we use it for is e-mail. The digital library is one of the most noteworthy applications for the Internet II p roject undertaken by many of the nation's leading research universities.