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In his article Richard Fyffe examines the risks of current changes to the scholarly communication systems by calling attention to fragility of digital systems and the resulting possibility of significant cultural loss. He supports his analysis by drawing upon the work of several prominent social theorists and provides a different context to view the cultural change in process. This article adds substantially to the study of scholarly communications, and will help libraries better understand not only the growing problems but also the reasons institutional responses to such problems have proven so difficult.