The space they appear to refer to is a three dimensional space represented by knowledge / information
stored on a library’s shelves and in their view accessible only through the pathways provided by a classification
scheme and by traditional text structures. So in breaking away from traditional designs in
knowledge storage and access, we may in time separate from not only a traditional physical storage of
knowledge but also from concepts of knowledge access and use thereby evolving new models in our understanding
of the purposes of knowledge and of learning. In such a context perhaps is it only in our
background storage facilities, the depositories for less used and less in demand stock, that traditional
concepts of knowledge organisation and use will survive? How might future scholars coming from a
digital tradition view the now commonplace methods of accessing it? The intellectual content of such a
knowledge store may be known to them but would they derive the same degree of meaning from it that
we do? Would they find that the interpretation of meaning was restricted by the medium in which the
knowledge was stored?