Originally shaped under citations of selected Nort American authors, electing the most significant themes on library of the future, this finest state-of the-art is now translated and condensed into Portuguese, and properly authorized by the Council on Library Resources (CLR), Washington, DC, USA. For reaching this emergent subject, it is adopted a personal, didactic and interpretative speech, but complying with the original table of contents, that is: introduction, vision of the future, definitions of digital libraries; print documents vs digital artifacts, application and tools for accessing information technology; projects and libraries of the future, including the reference librarian profile and the role of library science schools; whither libraries and a sense of urgency. It is finished with a bibliography, and an author and subject index.
Library of the future; Digital libraries; Virtual libraries; State-of the art (1983-1994); Citations of North American authors; Portuguese; translation; condensation