It would be a mistake to view global information-e...

It would be a mistake to view global information-exchange capabilities merely as the exchange of courses from country to country or the connecting of a student in a country, say Singapore, to a computer-communicated course from the New School in New York, for instance. A university is also a research institution. Antonio Ruberti, Italys minister of research and former rector of the University of Rome, proposes "abroad expansion of cooperative research" as being essential to international economic growth and development. Current ex-peri-ments in "distance education" suggest new ways of bringing greater excellence into Third World research as well as education. The constant growth and improvement of Internet have made it possible for exchange and cooperation among libraries. There is increasing cooperation among libraries, which will generate a satellite library to serve educational institutions all over the world. The "world brain" would bring the worlds knowledge together in one interactive system.