From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:35:51 -0700
Amazon v. ILL: it's a cost question and Amazon will have advantages
of scale. Right now, in twelve cities, they're doing same day
delivery on a lot of prime items -- it will be a while before we can
compete at all on that, and meanwhile prosperous students who need
this *now* for a paper they're writing will make a choice. (I think
that is an emerging problem for us in libraries: they are used to
getting crappy information instantly on the net and better information
today/tomorrow/48 hours from Amazon, so when we tell them our ILL
commitment time is 2-5 days, they look at us funny and think of their
options.)
Jim O'Donnell
ASU
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:21 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:25:20 -0500
>
> All of those.
>
>
> > From: Devin Savage <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:07:53 -0500
> >
> > Asking from a position of ignorance here, so I know nothing of this
> > service, but.... Better than ILL in what way? Is it more reliable,
> > more accurate, quicker, cheaper (for now)?
> >
> > Devin
> >
> > Devin Savage
> > Assistant Dean for Assessment and Scholarly Communication
> > Paul V. Galvin Library
> > Illinois Institute of Technology
> > 35 West 33rd Street
> > Chicago, IL 60616
> >
> > On Thursday, June 16, 2016, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:27:44 -0500
> >>
> >> The CCC's GetItNow service is already better than ILL, but it covers
> >> only articles so far.
> >>
> >> Sandy Thatcher
> >>
> >>
> >> > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:57:51 -0700
> >> >
> >> > Starting in my own condo building but encouraged by the New York Times
> >> >
> >> > (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/realestate/the-doormans-dilemma-what-to-do-with-all-those-packages.html?emc=eta1)
> >> >
> >> > I observe a national trend in package room crises. Too many boxes
> >> > being delivered to residences and even offices and no place to put
> >> > them. (If you live in an apartment building and they accept your
> >> > packages for you, look to see where they are stashing them: it can
> >> > get ugly.)
> >> >
> >> > So then Amazon appears. Amazon lockers and now a growing stream I've
> >> > seen mentioned on other lists of Amazon "stores" esp. on campuses:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/01/15/amazon-opens-new-store-on-uc-berkeley-campus/
> >> >
> >> > The campus issue seems particularly to be that students don't care
> >> > about their US Mail any more and are happy to walk a good ways to a
> >> > central location to pick that up, but they too want their packages
> >> > where they live.
> >> >
> >> > So there's Mr. Amazon, looking to solve the problem. The "stores"
> >> > don't stock merchandise in the traditional way and are indeed more
> >> > package pickup with a little customer service. Nose of camel under
> >> > tent? Well, leaving aside the contracts many campuses have with the
> >> > one or two big vendors left in the "bookstore" business but that
> >> > Amazon could work to supplant, when would we decide that Amazon
> >> > print-on-demand is a better solution to need-it-now than ILL? Some of
> >> > the time? Lots of the time? How much camel will wind up inside the
> >> > tent?
> >> >
> >> > Jim O'Donnell
> >> > Arizona State University
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