RE: Usage-based pricing (was ebooks in libraries a thorny problem)

[Liz Mengel <emengel@jhu.edu>]

So are you REALLY saying that the only reason Mendel's work was 
not lost was because some library somewhere collected it? 
Seriously?? Library collections historically have changed how and 
by whom they are developed and managed. Finding the right mix of 
patron driven, selector chosen, pay per view to support the 
constituents of your library is exactly what libraries have 
always done, the only difference is the technology.  One should 
envy the researchers in Austin in the coming years, decades, and 
generations because they have a library that is responsive to 
their needs and librarians that are willing to move beyond 
entrenched comfort levels and take some well thought out 
strategic risks.

Elizabeth Mengel
Head, Collection Management
The Sheridan Libraries and University Museums
Johns Hopkins University
emengel@jhu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu On Behalf Of Laval Hunsucker
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 5:38 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Usage-based pricing (was ebooks in libraries a thorny problem)

The Mendel instance is a classic one, but others of such a sort,
less spectacular, albeit significantly, are legion. One is not
inclined to envy researchers located in Austin in the coming
years, decades and generations

- Laval Hunsucker
     Breukelen, Nederland