Libraries and Outsourcing
There’s plenty of comments regarding the Gorman blogging but I like this snippet from within Clay Shirkey’s response:
Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a service, have outsourced themselves as bouncers to publishers like Reed-Elsevier; their principal job, in the digital realm, is to prevent interested readers from gaining access to scholarly material.
Karen Schneider gave a keynote at code4lib that touched on the outsourcing problem, which I’ve mentioned here before. I recommend giving the video a watch if you haven’t already.
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