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W. Benjamin's concept of the authenticity of art ("The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung, 1936, 5), involving as it does the presence of the original, seems inapplicable to traditional music, since this depends on performance or recreation of the composer's intent. However, T. Adorno has suggested that contemporary music is heading in a direction in which the score itself is the absolute realization of the artistic endeavor. Thus, electronic music may allow the merging of true spirit & sensual realization. This has occurred since the modern composer has near absolute control over both material & technique. In electronic music composition, the notation is bypassed, thus merging production & reproduction, & eliminating interpretation. A work is created that has only one realization. Electronic music is, through this merging, able to evade the question of live vs recorded performance, thus liberating itself from the trappings of ritual & cult, & therefore disallowing manipulation. Some possible social functions of electronic music are discussed in relation to politics. M. Migalski.

OhioLINK, a consortium of university and college libraries, has built one of the world's largest electronic journal archives. Many lessons have been learned about electronic journals during the building of this archive. How OhioLINK and other organizations build archives of electronic journals and how these archives are designed to make their contents accessible to users are described as are the changes that occurring in the contents of electronic journals. These three areas, how archives are built, their features, and future trends in publishing are related to their effects on journal readers.