INLS 210-89

Day 10

4/3/00

 

1.One minutes

Big Point

 

Questions

 

2. DL presentations Note site is http://www.ils.unc.edu/inls210-89-sp00/DL-overviews.html

Zheng Zheng Deng: Berkeley Sunsite

Patrick Polinski: BizTalk

            (Barbara LeBlanc & Kathy Wisser on april 10)

            (3 Perseus presentations on april 17—Pattuelli, Russell, & Sharpe)

            (Susan Dennis & Sue Erickson on april 24)

 

  1. Economics:
    1. How can DLs be sustained? (Hybrids are likely)

                                                               i.      Public financing (e.g., national, academic, public DLs)

                                                             ii.      Private financing (e.g., corporate DLs, Getty Museum)

                                                            iii.      Advertising

                                                           iv.      Usage

1.      subscription

2.      microcharges

    1. How can physical and digital libraries be integrated?

                                                               i.      Resource allocation (within a single entity)

                                                             ii.      Cooperative agreements (across entities)

    1. Library costs—an inefficient transfer process (based on Lesk, 1997)

                                                               i.      3-4% of university budget ($3-4 billion/yr)

                                                             ii.      1/3 of budget to books and journals (1/2 to salaries)

                                                            iii.      publishing 10% to authors, remainder to retail, distribution, printing, office ($20 billion)

                                                           iv.      Libraries are “buying clubs” (Varian)..sharing resources among members—new models needed?

1.      different prices for different users (airlines, hard/soft cover books, etc.)

a.       bandwidth-sensitive pricing; QOS

2.      bundling (balance the load an incentive to publisher)

                                                             v.      private rentals (first public libs in England pre 1750; video stores today)

1.      items that are used once (e.g., novels) are worth renting

2.      videos also viable since so few titles compared to books (demand concentration)

                                                           vi.      Ownership vs access (buying gives more rights--=>for licenses, out of print)

 

4. One-minute paper

      What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?