tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11668983.post113011845291223783..comments2023-09-19T09:28:19.313-05:00Comments on Librarians at the Gate: Libraries in the digital worldBarbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689314012050314027noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11668983.post-1130160612452707432005-10-24T08:30:00.000-05:002005-10-24T08:30:00.000-05:00Any library that charges $7.50 for an interlibrary...Any library that charges $7.50 for an interlibrary loan is pricing itself out of the market - and someone has simply decided it's no longer a public good worth supporting. I am spoiled here in Minnesota - we have such a seamless ILL system we can "compete" with Amazon. Or to put it in less commercialized terms, we take the importance of libraries as a public good seriously enough to fund the underlying systems. <BR/><BR/>However, I don't think (is it?) that this is a problem for most academic libraries. I think a lot of us are doing much more than this article suggests. In fact, <A HREF="http://educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0462.asp?bhcp=1" REL="nofollow">in the same publication</A> a year ago Edward Ayers praised librarians for being the heroes of academia who had bridged the divide between IT and academic cultures most effectively. <BR/><BR/>BarbaraBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689314012050314027noreply@blogger.com