•Libraries assess, collect, preserve, organize, provide
access to information and
promote its use to improve the human condition.
•Libraries are highly burdened to accommodate physical and electronic materials and increasing needs for information by larger and more diverse populations.
•Internet and WWW offer universal communication and publishing and challenge libraries to reconsider fundamental missions--DLs
•Leverage the DL challenge to develop a broader vision of
information services
for the common good: Sharium is a metaphor
for this