【C1】______ are the missions of a learned society in an era of digital networks? 【C2】______ the American Council of Learned Societies, we believe the 【C3】______ of digital networks will plow up and replant the worlds of scholarship and education. We believe these technologies can 【C4】______ us well if we take care in making the transition to using them. But we also believe 【C5】______ may do great damage if we are inattentive or timid or simply dazzled by the technologies. 【C6】______ to make the transition to digital networks in the humanities and social sciences is one of our main 【C7】______ at the ACLS. For a gathering in November 1996, we asked the executive directors of the 56 learned societies that then belonged to the ACLS 【C8】______ brief essays on 【C9】______ they perceived to be the mission of their learned society in an 【C10】______ age. My remarks are informed by this collection of 【C11】______ and our subsequent discussion of them, but the views expressed are my 【C12】______ . In due 【C13】______ I will argue the following. The new technology will allow long-standing missions of learned societies to be performed in new ways, but the missions of learned societies are also likely to be 【C14】______ . 【C15】______ are significant changes afoot in the world of scholarship and higher education involving internationalization, interdisciplinarity, and interactive learning. Learned societies are unusually well-positioned to use the new technology to contribute to these changes. 【C1】