As the scholarly record moves from a print-based one to an electronic one, challenges and opportunities that directly affect the academic enterprise are emerging, and the entire academic community must grapple with them. This volume serves as a briefing on trends and conditions relating to information technology. The pervasiveness of information technology is transforming the forms and methods of instruction, raising profound issues about the authority of the research record, and requiring people in academic life to rethink the way they do their work.