[Irtalk] Fwd: [GOAL] Where the Puck won't be

[Allison Fullard]

A feisty, straight-talking assessment of the choices facing academic libraries.  I keep coming across statements from other libraries that are taking the hard road of cutting bundles. 

>>> "Eric F. Van de Velde" <eric.f.vandevelde at gmail.com> 2013/10/10 07:10 PM >>>
Green Open Access as a survival strategy for libraries:


The academic library has, by default, tied its destiny to a service with no realistic prospects of long-term survival. It has become a systems integrator that stitches together outsourced components into a digital recreation of a paper-based library. This horseless carriage provides the same commodity service to an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, a graduate student in economics, and a professor of literature. Because it overwhelms the library's budget, organizational structure, and decision-making processes, this expensive and inefficient service hampers innovation in areas that are the library's best hope for survival.
Continue at http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-puck-wont-be.html

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