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Caption: Dedication - Grainger Engineering Library Symposium
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entry-level cost to be able to make their materials available. That will also facilitate the process. QUESTION: Is the Internet going to collapse under the increase of users that's occurring nowadays? ANSWER: (Mr. Allen): Well, first of all I think no one knows quite for certain how many users there are of the Internet, and I've seen estimates that range from a few million to many, many million, and I don't know what's accurate. Under its current state, if it were not to be improved, it would collapse, and in fact, it does collapse many times during the course of the day, at least certain subnetworks or the capacity to use the Internet is limited. I'm sure you are a user and probably know more about that than I do. But the Internet has limitations. 1 don't think it will collapse. I think there are a number of interested parties who have a financial and other interest in keeping it going and building the kind of capacity that will be required for more people to use it and use it much more easily. Internet certainly is an example of the thing we both talked about in terms of lack of ease of use. 'Surfing' the Internet is not an easy thing for a very high percentage of American people, even if they know how to get access to it. So, the Internet leaves a lot to be desired. I don't think it would collapse. QUESTION: What are library schools doing to enable the librarians of thefuture to understand the technology that's coming out every day. that's changing so rapidly ANSWER: (Mr. Wedgeworth): Well, I'm not as close to it as I was a couple of years ago, but 1 try to maintain my relationship with one of the best programs of the nation here on our campus. Based on what we get, and the graduate assistants that we have work- PAGE 27
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