These changes to the role of the library as a result of OA will, of course, contribute to
some wider changes that are occurring for libraries and librarians. A few brief comments
on this bigger picture should perhaps be made here in order to locate OA developments
within their wider context from a library point of view. Over the last decade
libraries have had to radically reinvent themselves with the burgeoning of electronic
information. If anything, this is likely to continue. In the next decade the prospect of
electronic information replacing print, rather than just coexisting with it, is likely to
become more and more likely. The role of the library will need to continue to change.