The Library Is Central To

The Book Is Here To Stay. What We're Doing Is Symbolic Of The Peaceful Coexistence Of The Book And The Computer.

Everybody Is Somebody, So You Don't Have To Introduce Anybody.

The Only Condition A Library Asks Its Users To Honor Is To Do Justice To Their Own Imagination, Their Own Curiosity And Their Own Thirst For Knowledge, And In The Process, To Achieve Their Own Independence Of Mind And Spirit.

That Is The Future, And It Is Probably Nearer Than We Think. But Our Primary Problem As Universities Is Not Engineering That Future. We Must Rise Above The Obsession With Quantity Of Information And Speed Of Transmission, And Recognize That The Key Issue For Us Is Our Ability To Organize This Information Once It Has Been Amassed - To Assimilate It, Find Meaning In It, And Assure Its Survival For Use By Generations To Come.

The Universe Is Not Going To See Someone Like You Again In The Entire History Of Creation.