The fact that critical elements of the shared infrastructure needed to effect a large-scale transition from print to electronic research collections were owned and managed by the library community itself gave library directors confidence that the timing and outcomes of this transition could be managed according to the needs of the academic community and not dictated by the business objectives of commercial providers. Were the combined resources of Hathi and large-scale shared print providers already sufficient to mobilize a change in library operations? What was the scope of service likely to be? How much and what kind of value would.
