The Electronic Campus: The Impact of the Scholar's Workstation Project on the Libraries at Brown

Abstract

The academic library has traditionally served as the centralized storehouse of information for the academic community, but inevitably its functions will change as more campuses are ''wired'' and as students and faculty have access to information through individual computer workstations linked in a local campus network for scholarly communication. This case, study describes the Scholar's Workstation project, a campuswide computerization project at Brown University, and assesses the. effects, to date, of that project on the institution's libraries. Suggestions are provided to other libraries whose institutions are beginning to explore the possibility of a similar venture.