The Bibliotheque de France will install 200 research workstations in the library’s public areas when it opens in 1995. The workstations will provide a network link to the card catalogs, note-taking and bibliography software, and, most ambitious, a sort of electronic notebook customized for work in electronic libraries … the plan is to allow a researcher to scan pages of text directly into a personal database instead of photocopying them for hard files. Scanned text can then be annotated, indexed, and searched by a variety of means.