I thought this was an interesting tidbit from an article in Publishers Weekly:
"Stephen Bosch, in charge of budgets and procurement at the University of Arizona library, [said] over the past decade $19 million has been spent on books that were never used."
The library now has "joined a usage-based purchase program with YBP Library Services in which an e-book can now be rented when requested by a library user; and after a certain number of requests demonstrate the book’s likely continued use, the e-book is then acquired at the hardcover list price."
Sounds like a smart way to save money, and it's a big change in the way the library does business. Read the whole article here.
