> To a greater degree, I think libraries ought to be putting into practice the > principles of our profession against public domain works. Collection. > Preservation. Organization. Dissemination. Take EEBO (Early English Books > Online), for example. Why couldn't the library community create something > like that? Why do we need to let Proquest own the theses and dissertation > market? Our profession is still not exploiting the technology and the > available content. Our Acquisitions Departments are really the Purchasing > Departments. We seemingly think we need to buy our content in order for it to > be valuable. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University of Notre Dame >
Or, at least many of our administrators do. Many administrators seem to follow the philosophy: "don't invest resources in building anything locally that you can purchase from a vendor." Regardless of the value (as determined by factoring quality and cost) of the product(s) available for purchase. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Frustrated Cataloger
