"Access vs. ownership" has become one of the critical issues in library and information
studies. Especially, there are much criticism about information access, the origin of this criticism is
related to the idea of information as object. For this reason, the author first elucidates the problems
of the concept of information access in this article, then discuss the philosophy of information
service. Finally, the author offers her view about the future role of libraries, and the library
management paradigm should be change. The author advocates reading research and information
use studies should be given more attention.