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From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 07:35:25 -0700
Oxford Press publishes a series of useful and smart paperbacks under
the "Very Short Introductions" rubric: 502 volumes at last count on
topics like:
Buddhist Ethics, Cancer, Catholicism, Chaos, Children's Literature,
Chinese Literature, Choice Theory, Christian Art, Citizenship, Civil
Engineering, Classics, Clausewitz, Climate
They sell for about $8 each on Amazon. A license for digital access
for a campus might cost as much as a complete print set I'm guessing.
They're very well done and offer an appreciably-better-than-Google
introduction to a wide variety of subjects. But I worry that they
would disappear into our OPAC and be essentially invisible. I'd be
tempted to buy the full print set and shelve them together in a
visible place: interesting if that were a way to make the print
version get more use than digital would.
So I write now to ask if anyone knows of library experience promoting
this series, either digital or print.
Jim O'Donnell
Arizona State University
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