New information technologies are creating "libraries without walls for books without pages". Better known as "Virtual Libraries", these new formats and medias are redefining the existing paradigms abourt what information and communication are, as well as the scope and definition of information sciences professionals' work. Interactivity and interdisciplinarity are the keywords. As we move into what is also caled the Ïnformation Era", this transition creates the need to rethink those ethical, esthetic, legal, cultural, etc. models established by the printend media. Simultaneously happening off and on-line, the "Information Revolution", another name used to describe these events, requires a wide range of hardware and software applications in order to become operative. Collection versus access, local user versus remote user, hierarchical or hypertextual indexing, print and distribute or distribute and print, surf the information ocean or drown? This article aims to discuss these issues under na interdisciplinary and a discronical perspective, contributing, perhaps, to the debate and the brainstorm created by digital media convergence.
Virtual libraries; On-line information; New technologies