Joan R. Challlnor
Chair， &hlesinger Library Advisory Committee
It is our privilege， or our misfortune， to live at a pivotal transition in world
history. The print era， which spans more than five centuries， is rapidly shifting
into a new age in which books are being challenged by electronically distrib-
uted texts and images. This revolution will transform every institution and prac-
tice-governmental and business， scholarly and popular， public and private.
Believing that libraries are at the very center of this fundamental shift in
the ways we acquire， store， and disseminate information and ideas， and wanting
to grapple with women s role!in the future as well as in the past， the Advisory
Committee of Radcliffe s Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the
History of Women in America~decided to convene an international conference
on \"Women， Information， and the Future.\" This conference， the proceedings of
which are collected in this volume， was planned as the culminating event of the
library s 50th anniversary in 1993-94.
The Schlesinger Library was well suited to hold such a conference: since
1943 the library has collected published and unpublished source materials
chronicling the history of women in the United States from before 1800 to the
present. During that time， the library has collected papers of prominent and
representative women， women s organizations， and families， as well as oral
history transcripts， audiotapes， films， microforms， and many thousands of books
and periodicals. It has become the foremost center for research on the history of
women and their contributions to U.S. society.
The Schlesinger conference had its genesis in an earlier event. In 1991 the
Women s Library and Information Center of Istanbul， Turkey， had sponsored
the First International Symposium of Women s Libraries. At that meeting，
Patricia King， then Director of the Schlesinger Library， offered to sponsor a
second conference in 1994. Building on this decision， the Advisory Committee
further decided to expand the theme of women s place in the world by consid-
ering the challenging issues presented by the Information Age. The 1994
conference was the result.
The conference took place as two further truths were becoming widely
acknowledged: that power and information are indissolubly linked and that
women have an essential role in sustainable human development. In planning
the 1994 conference the organizers wished to explore the ways in which these
basic principles interact with one another. If women are to continue to assert
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