Results of CIBER study on library finances, presented by Mark Kendall of YBP and Christopher Warnock of ebrary. These notes were done on the fly, forgive any typos. Demographics: 589 responses 71% academic libraries responded – most in north america (was Mexico in the NA grouping?), 55% USA 87% members of consortium Financial outlook 420 [...]

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Yesterday at the Charleston Conference we hosted a preconference on eBooks, titled “eBooks: Not just another binding.”  Carolyn Morris from Coutts, James Galbraith from OCLC, Janet Fischer from PCG Industries, and Sue Polanka from Wright State University organized the preconference.  There were 5 sessions on a variety of topics.  The discussion was great, questions were [...]

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