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crln-21672	Moffett, William A.	ACRL President’s letter	1990-02-01	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1951	74	48	Indeed, we’ve grown accustomed, in looking back at the past, to thinking in terms of a series of great fundamental changes—transitions in technology, in political attitudes, in esthetic sensibilities and cultural values so sweeping that we have been led, somewhat simplistically, to call them “revolutions.” And last year Barbara Moran’s fiftieth anniversary fea­ ture article in College & Research Libraries de­ scribed the past half-century of developments in academic libraries as an “unintended revolution” and hinted at still greater changes on the way.1 Indeed, in our own time, as librarians have spe­ cial reason to know, the world is again undergoing so basic a change in the way in which communica­ tion is carried out that not only libraries but society itself will surely be transformed.	cache/crln-21672.pdf	txt/crln-21672.txt