No, I am not going to talk about the amazing techno-age to come, when all documents from a single performance are compiled together on a hypermedia disk and transmitted readily over the wires in cyberspace as a virtual theatre research document. Nor am I going to suggest a future in which the theatre collections are singular—most having closed, one after the next, from lack of support. Rather than predicting the future, I wish to explore present elements of the problems now facing the fields of theatre librarianship and theatre research, and to suggest some directions we might take to solve these problems.