RE: Question regarding ILL

["Croft, Janet B." <jbcroft@ou.edu>]

Well, one big way it affects their interests is that it's what their
paying clients want!  As a librarian, I want to be able to use the
resources I'm paying for to support what I see as a vital service provided
for by copyright law -- so if a contract tries to take away my ability to
offer items through interlibrary loan, I will probably not sign it.  But
if you don't take "what the client wants" into consideration, yes, it's
not really in their best interests to offer ILL.  They want ALL libraries
to subscribe in order to get their material.  But if their policy means
FEWER libraries subscribe (because now we're wise to our negotiating
power) then they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

Janet Brennan Croft
Head of Access Services
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Bizzell 104NW
Norman OK 73019
405-325-1918
Fax 405-325-7618
jbcroft@ou.edu
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/
http://libraries.ou.edu/

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From: Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Question regarding ILL
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:05:16 EST

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JE:  Assuming we are talking about purely electronic publications here,
can anyone tell me why it would ever be in the interest of a proprietary
publisher, whether commercial or not-for-profit, to authorize interlibrary
loans?  I am not saying that such loans are a good or a bad thing; I am
just trying to see how it intersects with a publisher's interests.

Joe Esposito