Notes From Mosier-Thoughts on the Past, the Present and the Future

Smith started as a book seller, and worked for nearly thirty years in an academic library market that has undergone enormous change in the last several years. After years dealing with large academic institutions he serves as a director of a small public library. He talks about the significant growth of federal support of higher education, the advent and ongoing evolution of library automation, and, moving into more current years, the revolutionary emergence of Internet/Web based resources have re-shaped and re-defined much of the core of the library world.