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