The Well is Dry, What Can We Do?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"These past few years libraries have either had their budgets held flat or had them cut every year. It is sad to say that the “lucky” libraries are the ones that have had their budgets held flat. Yet, library resources continue to increase in number and price. I am sure it isn’t a news flash or secret to the sales people (although it seems like it when we see the invoice) but libraries have no more money. We have trimmed all of our fat. We are skin, bones and a little bit of sinew holding us together. All superfluous resources were cut years ago. We are now making hard cuts, getting rid of journals, packages, databases, that we would have never imagined cutting. We are slicing our book budget (ebook and regular) to nothing. Yet prices continue to rise...."

Link:

http://kraftylibrarian.com/?p=1406

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.comment oa.libraries oa.access oa.budgets

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:41

Date published:

09/19/2011, 08:08