[Peter Young]

Thank you. We are on schedule for a 15-minute break. I want to thank Steve Goldstein from NSF and Chris Casey from Senator Kennedy's office. I think we have talked about a number of different things this morning. This discussion will get us started for the next sections of the next several days. I would like to characterize what we talked about as the four Cs. Previously it was three Cs, I want to add to a 4th. I think we've talked about COMPUTERS. I think we've talked about CONDUIT. I think we've talked about CONTENTS (and brain work). I think we also need to talk about CONTEXT. I think that was an issue that Dave was talking about. We are talking about libraries that provide context for civilization as long as there has been a civilization. I think we've been talking about technology that has transformational capabilities, but we have to remember that libraries indeed provide the context. And we will continue to provide context within the global information infrastructure.

[Ching-chih Chen]

I would like to thank Marjorie for bringing up the point related to "digital" and "nondigital" information. It is true that we started with a session that placed emphasis on the digital information transmission and delivery. But it is not our intent to concentrate our discussions on "digital" information only. Specifically, tomorrow we will have sessions that specifically focus on the "nondigital" CONTENTs available globally in our libraries, archives, and museums, and how we should have a global information infrastructure to capitalize those valuable information resources and to provide "pointers" that can lead us to the content itself. Since the matter was brought up, I simply want to respond to it.