Abstract
ABSTRACTThe author reviews the implications of the principal dilemmas facing those involved in the provision of library and information services to the Australian community in an era of privatisation, monetarism, and the emerging philosophy that the user should pay for a wide range of services which society had previously held should, in the long-term interests of an enlightened and informed electorate, and the beneficial effect on the body politic, be provided free at the point of transaction. He takes an optimistic view, but at the same time warns that libraries can no longer expect to rely on a generalised and uninformed perception that they are beneficial to society to the point where their services should be freely provided. He sees considerable danger if libraries opt merely to pass on any charges incurred in the supply of information, however obtained. A related issue is that of freedom of access to government information.
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