Although academic libraries have accommodated themselves fairly readily to technological innovation in the past, they now face changes of a different order. The author reviews some of the trends which are observable in the publishing world and in the electronic storage and transmission of information. He attempts to assess the likely impact new techniques will have on university libraries in relation to their archival role, their provision for undergraduates and their function as information centres.
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