Abstract
Many pharmaceutical libraries have not been regarded as information service centers which are useful for research and development activities in the pharmaceutical industry and research institutes in Japan. Under this situation, such pharmaceutical libraries are unable to offer useful and valuable digital information services. To overcome this long-established custom and make libraries active in this age of the digital library, the most important condition is that librarians must take the leadership and initiative to introduce change in the structure and environments of information services in the pharmaceutical research and business sectors. This author supports the idea of the Frye Leadership Institute, established by the Council on Library and Information Resources and Emory University.
