Most Interesting Sentence (from the National Science Foundation): "The limits of what can be communicated by printing, mailing, storing, and retrieving piees of paper may be at hand" (Lancaster, 346).

While this may have been true, with the dawn of the digitization of our society, it could be that the librarian's original role of someone in charge of books may become all the more important in the future as people become more and more content to only temporarily obtain their information in a virtual space. Though F. Wilfrid Lancaster paints a "gloomy picture" in her estimation, now that everyday life has been digitized to an alarming degree, there is reason to believe that a "reactionary" and protectionist view of books may be warranted. As books become more scarce, someone has to carry the torch for the volumes upon volumes upon warehouses of printed information still within the jurisdiction of librarians everywhere.

"I suggest that the primary publication of primary literature in the year 2000 may in fact be a more or less direct analog of the present system" (Lancaster, 353). While this may be true, not all information has been digitized (and likely never can be). The librarian's original paper-based role may become more pertinent with time.

"We are moving rather rapidly and quite inevitably toward a paperless society" (Lancaster, 356). While this 1977 prediction has proved to be quite true, there is no reason that librarians cannot become masters of a paperless world...likewise, who will be better positioned to be the protectors of all things paper?