摘要： Academic libraries have taken on expanded roles as major contributors to, andas campus providers of, a growing array of electronic services. In some cases, librarians andlibrary administrators have aggressively pursued these responsibilities, while, in other situations,the libraries have accepted the inevitable assignment of some new obligations. The grafting ontothe library organization of many of these technology-related operations is a new phenomenon forlibraries. Will these new patterns become entrenched as a permanent fixture of library turf? Or,will they prove to be fleeting remnants at some future date of what was once referred to as theinformation age? In other words, will the developments facilitated by computers, mass storage, anddata communications have the same kind of long-range impact on libraries as that launched by theprinting press?