captainogbleedmore t1_j7s5ipv wrote on February 9, 2023 at 12:42 AM

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There are a lot of other factors at play too. Not sure how they will get around reciprocal lending and borrowing agreements for interlibrary loan when you have no physical books to lend out. There are two virtual private colleges in the state and even they maintain their physical collections partially for this reason.

prettypeepers OP t1_j7s5zvr wrote on February 9, 2023 at 12:46 AM

Right, thats a really good point. They kept reiterating that "the interlibrary loan will still exist", but how will they accomplish that if they can only take and not give?

captainogbleedmore t1_j7s79d4 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 12:55 AM

They will still have their journal database subscriptions to lend out, but that doesn't cover a commitment to books. I do wonder how much of an increase there was to database costs with the merger. A school that size easily pays 100k for EBSCO's academic search complete, so I can only imagine the costs for Sage, ScienceDirect, and JSTOR. Hope their database budget is at least 500k!

prettypeepers OP t1_j7s8w33 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 1:07 AM

And the crazy part is those resources- we already had a lot of them! We have access to JSTOR, and a ton of researching resources. I don't know how all of that will be affected with the merger.