First, let me say how pleased I am
to be able to present this Mary
Donaldson Lecture to you this
evening and I want to thank you
very much for giving me this
opportunity because it allows me
to say some of the things I've
wanted to say to an audience of
librarians, an audience in which I
know that books s till hold an
inestimable value in a world that has
been listening to doomsayers
predicting the death of the book for many years now.
