Which activities should research libraries support?
At present, the individual scholar who wishes to make
use of the tremendous possibilities the computer offers
him must collect his own base of CD-ROMs, electronic
texts, bibliographical software, presentation software
and hardware, font software, and OCR software.  All
of this is managed at present at most universities by
a system of unorganized gurus.  It ought to be done
by the library.
                       (Marchand 1994)