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Electronic Resources and ILL
As someone who has been involved with ILL and resource sharing for more than twenty years, I find the recent "post-ILL" thread to be both fascinating and timely. I'd like to thank Scott Wicks for raising the following "dumb" question to get things started: "Should we still care about ILL for electronic products?" We all (librarians, publishers, etc.) talk about how paradigms are shifting with the continued reliance on electronic resources and yet, at the same time, we all seem to want to impose old structures on new paradigms. This "post-ILL" thread is a case in point. All too often, librarians and publishers alike seem to take a "we are right and they are wrong" stance on this and similar questions. Because there are librarians, publishers, vendors, aggregators and copyright folks on LIBLICENSE-L, I feel that this is a logical forum for discussion of this issue. I would like to see us all work together to come to some sort of agreement whereby no one is reasonably denied access to information that they need, and no publisher/vendor/aggregator is denied reasonable compensation for information that they might provide. The key word here, of course, is "reasonable". I guess I'd like to issue this as a challenge to LIBLICENSE-L subscribers. Can we come up with a paradigm that does not penalize library users OR publishers/vendors/aggregators, but rather BENEFITS all those concerned? I think we can. Bernie Sloan ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-4895 Fax: 217-333-6355 e-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu
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