THE CULTURAL LEGACY OF THE "MODERN LIBRARY" FOR THE FUTURE*

[^*An expanded form of an address to the annual meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in San Antonio, Texas, 17 January 1996.]
URL: http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/faculty/modlib.html

• Introduction
• The Library as an Era-Specific Phenomenon
• The Modern Library as Era-Specific
• What Did the Modern Library Replace?
• The Modern Library and the Emerging Library
• The Library as a Social Institution
• The Normative Target Public of a Library
• The Funding of the Modern Library
• The Challenge of a New Environment
• LIS Education and the Emerging Library
• Summary
• Notes
• References

(Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1276
E-mail : miksa@gslis.utexas.edu