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I am open to being convinced of this, but could you please provide a source? As far as I know, the Emergency Library was a unilateral decision by IA, not a par
by jawns 4y ago
I am open to being convinced of this, but could you please provide a source?
As far as I know, the Emergency Library was a unilateral decision by IA, not a partnership with a consortium of shuttered libraries.
The announcement did mentioned receiving support from other libraries, but it didn't indicate that those libraries owned sufficient copies to cover all CDL usage.
Indeed, if that were the case, I would expect the language to have been very different -- something like "expanded access" versus "suspending all waitlists," the latter of which only makes sense if lending is unlimited and thus not CDL.
- tacitusarc 4y agoThe best I can quickly find is this: http://blog.archive.org/2020/04/27/forging-a-cooperative-path-forward-university-presses-national-emergency-library/ http://blog.archive.org/2020/04/27/forging-a-cooperative-pat... https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTRPssQgr90yah0sp--Vyj-1CPVqmsKnI6fmpbuTDbdesZQgSlje8CzneDSLli78p8HSJDzyMj9NvkE/pub https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTRPssQgr90y... Which pretty clearly indicates the move was unilateral by IA, but they got by-in after the fact.