 One potential Effect is on the association is that it may Stimulate us to rethink The notion of membership it's it's possible I say this with some hesitation being on the membership committee but it's possible that notions that Resulted in articulations like The future research library will be global in nature You know those if that's true if we really do believe that then I think that could very well have implications for how we think about membership there were Indications that some of what we what while the core of what we do will remember will remain probably Very much the same at least functionally There are going to be new things we do And we're going to do some of the things we've been doing differently as a consequence of which The the kinds of discussions that ARL fosters and The people it invites into those discussions Could end up changing and arguably should end up changing. I'm thinking for instance Clifford Lynch Has what what he refers to as the executive round table concept in CNI where? a CNI member Goes and takes with her someone who isn't a CNI member like a vice-chancellor for research or something like that I Wouldn't be surprised if the framework that emerges kind of pushes us a little bit in that direction of saying Okay, so at the next ARL meeting we're going to be talking about this and we're going to invite a bunch of CIOs in a bunch of faculty members in one of the things that really came out in our session was engagement with the faculty now You know Ellie. It's a faculty member. So it's not terribly surprising, but I I do think it could end up changing then The structure of and the participants in ARL discussions, and I think that would be interesting I think the association should be The vehicle through which the community can discuss plan and undertake collective action So that's where I believe this is going to be very important libraries and particularly research libraries and and the types of research libraries that are the constituency of ARL Are full of very very bright aware people and they they're doing fine in many cases on their own They do have lots of challenges facing them But but they're doing fine but but I think what I would like to see come out of this is some plans or or some Directions for planning for the kinds of collection the collective action that I believe will be very important across not just the community of Academic research libraries or other research libraries, but really all all libraries Right down to and collections right down to private collections or smaller Archives and historical collections. I think there is an ecosystem out there that is in need today of some thinking about what Not not just how they all solve their own individual problems Or maybe they're collective problems or challenging them right now But what they can do as a collective as a community to advance the more global needs of Scholarship and and preservation of culture and the kinds of things are important for human society My hopes for the outcomes of this process in so far as higher education are concerned. They're fairly modest And probably primary amongst them is that the voice of the research library in the discussion About the future of higher education will be taken more seriously