It's up to individual teams to decide what's right for them. Is the ebook problem minor at your library? Ignore it; someone else may solve it. Are your patrons bugging you like heck? Consider that it may take less time to solve the problem than to keep dealing with people nagging you or the internal frustration of not being able to do a halfway decent job of connecting literature with eyeballs. You may be able to skip some other program temporarily, establish an alternative ebook system, then go back to what else you were doing.
Libraries are floundering because people don't want to pay for them. People don't want to pay for them because, okay, you can't run 80% of the economy on 20% of the wealth, but also because they don't feel libraries are very relevant anymore. I want libraries to be relevant to people's needs now, because the rule is adapt or die. Either libraries find ways to meet people's needs or they will cease to exist.
I don't like the way that trend is going, with cutbacks making libraries even less useful, so I'm trying to do what I can from where I am to stop it. At least I can throw ideas out there. Maybe somewhere, somebody will have enough resources to give it a try. If they do, I hope they get in touch with me. I've had authors and small publishers saying they're interested in alternative ebook arrangements that would improve library function.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well...
Date: 2012-01-25 02:45 am (UTC)Libraries are floundering because people don't want to pay for them. People don't want to pay for them because, okay, you can't run 80% of the economy on 20% of the wealth, but also because they don't feel libraries are very relevant anymore. I want libraries to be relevant to people's needs now, because the rule is adapt or die. Either libraries find ways to meet people's needs or they will cease to exist.
I don't like the way that trend is going, with cutbacks making libraries even less useful, so I'm trying to do what I can from where I am to stop it. At least I can throw ideas out there. Maybe somewhere, somebody will have enough resources to give it a try. If they do, I hope they get in touch with me. I've had authors and small publishers saying they're interested in alternative ebook arrangements that would improve library function.
Maybe the damn pig will fly.