CONSIDERS THE "BENTON REPORT" IN LIGHT OF its Stated aims and pronouncements. Finds the analysis of the present situation of libraries shallow and unconvincing. Discerns a hidden agenda of imposing "virtual libraries" on a public that, according to the testimony gathered by the report itself, wants real libraries. Deplores the application of half-baked business concepts to the present state of, and future prospects for, libraries. Laments the elitism that pervades the report.