prettypeepers OP t1_j7s5zvr wrote on February 9, 2023 at 12:46 AM

Reply to comment by captainogbleedmore in Please help support our campus libraries! by prettypeepers

Right, thats a really good point. They kept reiterating that "the interlibrary loan will still exist", but how will they accomplish that if they can only take and not give?

captainogbleedmore t1_j7s79d4 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 12:55 AM

They will still have their journal database subscriptions to lend out, but that doesn't cover a commitment to books. I do wonder how much of an increase there was to database costs with the merger. A school that size easily pays 100k for EBSCO's academic search complete, so I can only imagine the costs for Sage, ScienceDirect, and JSTOR. Hope their database budget is at least 500k!

prettypeepers OP t1_j7s8w33 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 1:07 AM

And the crazy part is those resources- we already had a lot of them! We have access to JSTOR, and a ton of researching resources. I don't know how all of that will be affected with the merger.