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"Almost all libraries during the pandemic have dramatically increased access to digital lending. Library usage has increased with many books fully checked out a
by mcguire 6y ago
"Almost all libraries during the pandemic have dramatically increased access to digital lending. Library usage has increased with many books fully checked out at libraries."
Do you have a source for that? My understanding was that digital lending and physical lending came out of different pools (in fact most digital lending is through something like Rakuten OverDrive); using a library's physical inventory would likely violate it's digital license.
- zerocrates 6y agoYeah, I'm not aware of any "normal" libraries going the CDL route, all the digital lending I've seen takes the form of licensing ebooks and using Overdrive or something like it, and those ebooks are totally separate from the physical holdings (and they're also, from the library's perspective, priced totally differently, with significant restrictions on usage and total number of lendings and things like that).
- neaden 6y agoAnecdote but my local library uses Hoopla for digital loaning, and they went from 10 loans a month to something like 30 or 40.
- patrickhogan1 6y agoSource: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/public-library-association-survey-coronavirus-resources/575978 https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/public-library-associat... Hope this helps. The main point I was trying to raise raise was in response to the article where an advocate of IA argued that IA was justified because books are "locked up" during pandemic. Yet libraries are putting their licenses of those works to use.