Another Future for the Romanian Libraries

For Romanian contemporary society, libraries are its heritage and the future. The arguments are historical – no one can live without history: contemporary – present dimensions of our life are linked to the quantity and quality of knowledge; and prospective – to speak of the future means to discuss the fundamental potential of Romanian society, including the libraries′ treasures. Argues that to ensure the future development of Romanian libraries it is necessary to: publish a white paper on Romanian libraries; promote and adopt legislation for Romanian libraries; elaborate and adopt a statute for librarians; construct and put into action a staged national programme for the building of libraries; project a staged automation for the national library system; and help the professional organizations of librarians.