JK below says 'note no physical library is needed for this.' Perhaps not
on the patron end, but it still is required on the business/library
end. The search, find, and deliver parts for physical books cannot be
totally divorced from the physical library. Amazon's warehouses are
nothing but physical libraries. We all must pay money to access Amazon's
'library' because we don't physically visit it (plus we keep the item).
The costs of having books pulled off the library shelf and delivered
free of charge on a large campus would not be trivial and so even if a
catalog is created that permits ordering or delivery of campus (ie.
free) book content, is there enough money and low-level staff to enable
this to work in practice? Without charging for this type of delivery,
can libraries freely sustain what Amazon charges to do?
What is the maximum payment people will accept for what is usually seen
as a free system? We now charge $8 per item for PDFing and emailing
print-only journal content to faculty, staff, and students and more for
non-campus people. This seems to be working. What amount of book
delivery fees would JK be willing to pay on an ongoing basis for a
library delivery service?
Scott Warren
Dan Lester wrote:
> Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 9:24:56 AM, you wrote:
>
> JK> 1. I want content, not items. I don't want a pointing device telling
> JK> me where on the shelf to find a book. I want to search, find, and have
> JK> it delivered. Note no physical library is needed for this.
>
> Right...no physical library or other pointing is needed as long as
> you're satisfied with the information that is free and available on
> the internet (even if it is being paid for by a library). At Boise
> State, and hundreds of others, you can get information from the last
> decade or so of thousands of journals, plus all the freebies on the
> net. But it won't get you the latest Steven King novel, or the latest
> publication from ALA, or.....even from Elsevier....or Kluwer...or...
>
> dan
>
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