Sentences with phrase «traditional library model»

Unlike traditional library models, you'll get paid when a library patron checks out your book instead of charging the library up front.

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I agree that the model they have with services like Overdrive is somewhat problematic, more of a lease than ownership, and I agree that traditional publishers have been unreasonable here, but e-book lending is an extremely high growth, high use area for my library system.

However, if libraries don't find a way to distribute eBooks in a reasonable manner (which the Overdrive model fails to do) and provide a comprehensive collection of books from traditional publishers (which, of course, neither Amazon nor libraries offers at present), then libraries will become marginalized and, ultimately, fade from the scene (IMHO).

However, at the same time, libraries are facing an identity crisis: As the Internet has become the primary way people gather information, the traditional «building filled with books» model is less relevant to their lives.

Public libraries are increasingly transitioning away from our traditional model to less specifically defined public spaces, such as the «community center» library.

But just as the DDA model has challenged libraries, publishers, and vendors to rethink traditional methods of buying and selling, asking all sides to place their trust in the user's ability to drive purchasing, so, too, has the idea that books in digital format being grouped together and sold as a package required all involved to further rethink how to amass content as efficiently and logically as possible.

While other national libraries may continue to add the majority of traditional grey literature types to their collections, CISTI has moved in many cases to a just - in - time model of document supply for such document types as standards, patents and theses.

Your comment on the traditional business model is correct, only I wish more people understood the dilemma (i.e. library directors, managers, etc..)

The current issue of the New Yorker has an article by Anthony Grafton called «Digitization and Its Discontents» that discusses the ongoing «tension» between the traditional print library model versus the Google Book projects of the world.

When the reason for access is to consult library materials — which has been the central question in this article — factors such as participation in a depository program, funding models, traditional use, and library policies can all be relevant.