在生了一场小病之后,麻省理工学院的图书馆主任安·沃尔伯特(Ann Wolpert)在10月2日辞世。她是我的领导和导师。在17年里,她都是麻省理工学院的首席图书馆学专家,并一直在解决一个非常吸引人的问题:研究型图书馆应该如何面对互联网带来的机遇和挑战?对于任何想知道“为什么我们解决不了大问题”的人来说,她是灵感的源泉。研究型图书馆在我们的文化中扮演了特殊的角色:它储存着我们的知识继承,尤其是科学和技术文献。安问道,公众是否应该能不受限制地获得在学术期刊上发表的研究?大多数同行评议的杂志都由高利润的大型媒体公司出版,而且即使它们发表的研究 After a minor illness, Ann Wolpert, MIT library director, died on October 2. She is my leader and mentor. For 17 years she has been a leading library science expert at MIT and has been addressing a very attractive question: How should a research library face the opportunities and challenges of the Internet? Anyone who wants to know She is the source of inspiration for those who “can not solve big problems”. Research libraries play a special role in our culture: they store our intellectual heritage, especially scientific and technical literature. Ann asked whether the public should have unrestricted access to research published in scholarly journals. Most peer-reviewed journals are published by high-margin, big media companies, and even though their published research