Never has been reducing costs outright. Google "OCLC rate of rise" and
you find publications from the earliest days quoting Fred Kilgour on
this. It was always about controlling the rate of the cost increases
predicted for technical services (since public use was not yet
envisioned in the early '70s).
- Michele
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Michele Newberry
FCLA
MJ Suhonos wrote:
> I find the subtleties in this last sentence particularly telling in a time when library budgets are being slashed markedly:
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> "As always, OCLC’s public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing the **rate of rise** of library costs remain paramount." (emphasis mine)
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> Not reducing costs outright? Hmm.
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> MJ
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> On 2010-08-05, at 3:49 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
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Received on Thu Aug 05 2010 - 16:14:07 EDT