There can be no question that over the past two decades we have seen the beginnings of the most radical transformation of the distribution of content since Gutenberg invented the printing press. While none of us can predict how it will all turn out and what revolutionary changes are still to come, this article will lay out some of the key trends that are impacting the structures, systems, and conventions of publishing and libraries and how NISO and it community are or need to respond to those trends. Our community will need to adapt its standards and best practices to the changes already underway and those yet to come and possibly even the definition of consensus. In the past four years, NISO has positioned itself to react more quickly to changes and respond to the community's needs.
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