<div dir="ltr">Academic libraries, like scholarly societies, presses, and individual authors, are part of a complex and evolving ecosystem. <b><font color="#ff0000">The difficult challenge facing all these stakeholders is how to change a whole ecosystem. No single action or actor will be able to achieve this transformation</font></b>. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, the risk of unintended consequences is higher with rapid, dramatic change. But there are things that individuals and organizations can do that will contribute to broader changes. Returning to the ecological metaphor, we can call up the old maxim, “Think globally, act locally.”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><a href="http://www.culanth.org/articles/735-reason-risk-and-reward-models-for-libraries-and">http://www.culanth.org/articles/735-reason-risk-and-reward-models-for-libraries-and</a></div>
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