| Sumario: | Column description.TheFuture Voices in Public Servicescolumn is a forum for graduate students in library and information science programs to discuss key issues in academic library public services, to envision what they feel librarians in public service have to offer to academia, to tell us their visions for the profession, or to share research being conducted in library schools. We hope to provide fresh perspectives from those entering our field, in both the United States and other countries. Interested faculty of graduate library and information science programs, who would like their students’ ideas represented in these pages, are invited to contact Miriam L. Matteson,mmattes1@kent.edu. Kris Joseph is a Master’s student in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. In this essay, he explores the notion of viewing open access from a “post-open” perspective where the idea of Open Access is no longer viewed as an abstract future state, but a current condition of the time. He presents the argument that by being in a post-open state, the remaining barriers to Open Access should be addressed from a position of “openness” where open access to materials is expected and thus incorporated into all aspects of our services.
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