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<p>A growing number of people will conduct their intellectual lives almost exclusively in electronic environments. They will feel at ease gaining access to information and ideas through computers and related media but awkward with books, other printed media, and the traditional libraries associated with them. If the heritage of liberal learning is to be functionally accessible to such people, it will need to be transmuted so that people can part1cipate in it as effectively through the electronic media as they can through the printed. So far, the electronic media have been developed as useful means for storing and retrieving information, but they are almost entirely undeveloped as means for pursuing and developing reflective ideas and values. Until they are so developed, the heritage of liberal learning will not find a robust place in the electronic environment. The mission of the Laboratory for Liberal Learning is to develop better ways by which people who rely on electronic media can absorb and extend the humane accomplishments of our culture while working with text and images with computers.</p>

<ul><li><i>The Reader's Resource</i>, a program to facilitate the reflective reading of large texts on-line and electronic publication of major sources in the liberal tradition so that students may so read them, and</li>