Perspectives on the library in the twenty-first century -- Scholarship, information, and libraries in the electronic age / Stanley Chodorow -- The impact of information technologies on the role of research libraries in teaching and learning in the United States / Elaine Sloan -- The life of the mind in a world transformed by networks and digital libraries / Paul Evan Peters -- What's happening to the book? / Richard A. Lanham -- The impact of digital technology on libraries / Jerry D. Campbell -- The future value of digital information and digital libraries / Michael Lesk.

Meeting the challenges of the digital library -- The library as provider of digital resources for teaching and scholarship / Ann J. Wolpert -- Can we afford digital information? Libraries? An early assessment of economic prospects for digital publication / Ann B. Okerson -- Intellectual property policy for an information society / Peter Lyman -- The uses of digital libraries / Donald J. Waters -- Digital preservation / Deanna B. Marcum -- The impact of digital libraries on library staffing and education / Rachael K. Anderson -- Government records in a digital world / Peter B. Hirtle -- A view on the ecology of information / Brian L. Hawkins.

The digital Library in the service of research and education -- The Library of Congress's National Digital Library / Laura Campbell -- Toward libraries' digital future / Leigh Swain and Susan Haigh -- The future of libraries and library schools / Daniel E. Atkins -- Redefining the university through educational and information technologies / Susan K. Nutter -- Re-engineering the undergraduate curriculum / Jack M. Wilson -- The Internet Public Library / Joseph W. Janes -- Public libraries in the United States / Beverly P. Lynch -- Prognosis on becoming digital / William D. Walker.