Libraries and Technological Forces Affecting Them.

Do you need to be told or reminded that li braries of the future will be different from those of today? Is it necessary to tell or re mind you that computers and other trappings of modern technology are becoming more im portant and will present both challenges and opportunities for libraries? Do you need to be titillated and stirred up about the future pros pects? Or do you need to be sobered up and to be made aware that the rosy future about which you get titillated will not occur without a great deal of thinking, effort and money? These are some of the questions that were gnawing at me as I thought about this paper. I wanted to avoid telling you a great deal more or a great deal less than you care to